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...Sweet Home Alabama, a romantic comedy opening this week, Reese Witherspoon plays a Manhattan fashion designer who returns to her rural hometown to get a divorce from her high school sweetheart. She does not, however, fake her own death as a joke. She does not, while drunk in a honky-tonk, make a crude reference to oral sex. All that was cut because the studio was worried that the heroine of Sweet Home Alabama wouldn't seem sweet enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOVIES: Where Is the Love? | 9/30/2002 | See Source »

...monitoring quality of healthcare in the U.S. is a joke and a failure,” he said...

Author: By Wendy D. Widman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Study: HMO Report Cards Miss the Mark | 9/26/2002 | See Source »

TIME: Some on the right call you the new Jane Fonda and joke about what you'll call your exercise video...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIME.com This Week SEP. 16-22 | 9/23/2002 | See Source »

...heard of so-called socially responsible mutual funds; now comes one that's just the opposite, with its holdings concentrated in alcohol, tobacco, gambling and military contracting. Mutuals.com a money manager based in Dallas, calls its new investing vehicle the Vice Fund. And its strategy is no joke. Over the past five years, stocks from the sectors represented in the Vice Fund have, in aggregate, appreciated about four times as much as the S&P 500--and nearly 11 times as much as those in the Domini 400 index of socially responsible stocks. While more than 90% of the Vice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Global Briefing: Sep. 23, 2002 | 9/23/2002 | See Source »

...Some on the right call you the new Jane Fonda, and joke about what you'll call your exercise video...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exclusive: Scott Ritter in His Own Words | 9/14/2002 | See Source »

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