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...cage, kept Iraq's chaos in the newspapers. The cumulative burdens helped explain Blair's surprise pre-operative pledge to quit before the end of his next term - assuming he gets re-elected - probably around his 10-year mark in office. This officially starts his transformation to lame duck. At least he'll have somewhere to retreat to: the Blairs have just bought a $6.5 million house in a posh London neighborhood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Heart Of Labour | 10/3/2004 | See Source »

...live in a divided nation. Thus there are two schools of thought on Joey, the 800-lb. gorilla of new TV shows (NBC, Thursdays, 8 p.m. E.T.), starting Sept. 9. Friends was lame, ergo Joey will be lame. Friends was genius, and ... perhaps we need to give Joey a chance. After the failure of every one of the Seinfeld-alum shows, few think Matt LeBlanc's much-hyped solo sitcom is a guaranteed success. In the first episode the still none-too-bright Joey moves to Los Angeles to pursue his acting career. He moves in with his sister (Drea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fall Preview | 8/30/2004 | See Source »

Kerry's obvious frustration with his self-imposed straitjacket not only leads him into lame forays like the troop-deployment gaffe but also to some tortured circumlocutions about the war. Most spectacular was spokesman James Rubin's recent statement that a President Kerry "in all probability" would have gone to war against Saddam Hussein by now. Oh really? I thought Kerry's position was that he would have waited for U.N. inspectors to complete their process--which, we now know, would not have produced evidence of illegal arms--and that he would have gone to war only with a supple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kerry in a Straitjacket | 8/30/2004 | See Source »

...Snoozefest” might be a bit too harsh a term. Rather, I choose to liken it to the lame introduction or the interminable meeting with the proctors before every summer camp you’ve ever attended...

Author: By Michael R. James, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: King James Bible: Random Musings From Ivy Media Day | 8/13/2004 | See Source »

...It’s just that our country tells us to ride stuff into the ground, kill it, milk it for every dollar,” Corrigan added. “And that’s lame. You’ve got to know when to let go of something...

Author: By Timothy J. Mcginn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dispatch Reflects, Prepares For Final Show | 7/30/2004 | See Source »

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