Word: hmm
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...this year to $8.25 billion? Now he says that's just a target, not written in stone. Those big-spending supplementary budgets he derided in his stump speeches? Koizumi now thinks one will be necessary this year, after all. The three-year deadline for cleaning up banks' bad loans? Hmm, that might actually take longer. This doesn't add up to a major policy retreat, but Koizumi's waffling amid looming economic catastrophe raises some critical questions: Is he up to the task? And what does Koizumi really want for Japan? The fact is, no one really knows. Since becoming...
...works CD to TIME's offices in New York City. She wanted a critic to go to the studio where she was working and listen to her new music there. She wanted to stand right next to the critic as he took in her just recorded songs. Hmm. Actually, come to think of it, having Shakira--who recently graced the cover of PEOPLE EN ESPANOL's "25 Bellezas Latinas" issue--personally play her new material isn't all that bad a deal. Maybe this control-freak thing is something we can live with...
...embrace of Giuliani is still gawky and schizophrenic. "Nobody should walk away from Rudy. Even if you don't like him, you've got to give him credit," he says. "Unfortunately the public has more of a 'What have you done for me lately?' attitude than it should." (Hmm. Off message already...
...meetings, Betty Ford or the adult section at VideoPros. And it’s not just drugs or alcohol—others slip into phobic behavior, sex addictions, obsessive-compulsive patterns, co-dependent relationships, hallucinations, etc. Maybe their mommies didn’t give them enough love. (Hmm, on that note, maybe while I’m off sending Winona Ryder some shampoo—she looks pretty dirty these days—I’ll send Calista Flockhart a teddy bear.) The best part about all this self-destructive behavior is that now we can play doctor...
...Scripture condones. His nondenominational church is located in a mostly African-American neighborhood of northwest Atlanta, where the churches outnumber the stoplights. "We can't sway from the Bible because we're in trouble with the state," Allen told TIME on Friday, his followers standing around him intoning "Mmm-hmm." He says the country's notorious school shootings prove the need for discipline. And he points out that only two of the 41 kids were found to have visible injuries...