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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Still, in the second quarter, Argentina rallied with some spot-up shooting; it helped them that Bryant jacked a couple of brick threes early in the U.S. possession, a somewhat annoying habit that could bite the Yanks in the final (Bryant had another bad three-point shooting night, as he missed seven of his nine attempts, though that's clearly nit-picking when a team is blasting its opponents by an average of 30.3 points in the Olympic tournament...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: US Hoops Shows How to Win Ugly | 8/22/2008 | See Source »

What do you think he's going to say? He won't like it, for sure. But Cheech has a habit of not dealing with unpleasantness. He probably won't read...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q & A: Tommy Chong | 8/15/2008 | See Source »

...that honor and humiliation often weigh as heavily in the minds of statesmen and citizens as do economic and security interests. Americans, who have not experienced a precipitous drop-off in power, have difficulty relating to the running tallies of slights maintained in other places. They must avoid the habit of projecting onto others their own ideas of what is rational. This is one more reason to expand the language, anthropological and historical training of diplomats and others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Samantha Power: A Question of Honor | 8/14/2008 | See Source »

...opening scene, with its choice of desk or drug habit, introduces one of the book's most unsettling truths: that despite Carr's recollection that he cleaned up his act to care for his newborn daughters, the more compelling factor was his professional ambition. Much of the memoir's emotional heft involves Carr's coming to terms with this idea, realizing that for him, work is, "in some twisted way, more sacred, more worthy of protection, than friends, loved ones, and family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Collective Memory | 7/31/2008 | See Source »

...great successes of the post-1945 world - a unique geopolitical experiment that has spread peace and prosperity across a continent that, within living memory, had little of either. And yet when asked to endorse its leaders' plans for the future of the Union, European voters have a habit of being ornery. The Irish followed where the Dutch and French led in 2005, rejecting in their own referendums the proposed European constitution. The Irish no, in other words, was one of those moments that showed the fault lines in Europe's union, between young and old, élites and ordinary folk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EU: Vision Limited | 7/30/2008 | See Source »

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