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...friend bought one, and we were both struck by the expression on Osama's face. It was ascetic and yet sensual, as he floated above an Afghan mountain range where an eagle was ripping its claws into an American F-16 jet fighter as if it was some hapless pigeon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where Osama Is a Rock Star | 10/12/2001 | See Source »

...friend bought one, and we were both struck by the expression on Osama's face. It was ascetic and yet sensual, as he floated above an Afghan mountain range where an eagle was ripping its claws into an American F-16 jet fighter as if it was some hapless pigeon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where Osama Is a Rock Star | 10/11/2001 | See Source »

...life-long Bulls fan, and watching the current Chicago crop of hapless tykes disheartens me. I’ve been looking for a team I can root for once the Bulls are mathematically out of the playoffs, which is usually by December. The Sacramento Kings have come close, but now I can sincerely root for Jordan’s Wizards...

Author: By Rahul Rohatgi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Rahooligan: Being Like Mike All Over Again | 10/3/2001 | See Source »

Quite the contrary. It stars Monty Python vet John Cleese as a Las Vegas casino titan who sends some hapless losers on a cross-country race, all for the amusement of a bunch of inveterate international gamblers wagering on which desperado will grab the prize: $2 million in a remote bus-station locker. Before the race is over, Whoopi Goldberg is stranded in the desert; Seth Green and Vince Vieluf, as two brothers whose greed is matched only by their stupidity, get trapped--in their Ford Bronco--atop an airport radar tower; a cow flies; Cuba Gooding Jr. hijacks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad Race | 8/20/2001 | See Source »

Roger Clinton has always borne a resemblance to Fredo Corleone, the hapless brother in The Godfather. Sources tell TIME that more than a year ago, after the FBI learned of Roger's attempts to influence the U.S. Parole Commission on behalf of heroin trafficker Rosario Gambino, the bureau wanted to run a sting on the President's half brother. The investigation petered out. Sources also say that J.T. Lundy, former head of Calumet Farms, which employed Roger following his release from prison in 1986, offered him stock in a Venezuelan coal deal in return for help with legal problems. (Lundy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: O Brother, Where Art Thy Standards? | 7/9/2001 | See Source »

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