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...when I met her. She was quick to judge someone a bore, though ready to reverse the call on receipt of evidence to the contrary. I'd been at her house for dinner 50 times before she wondered whether she might be invited to mine. "I don't mind lap eating," she said. Having missed the bustle of a happy family life, she was thrilled to pitch in and toss the salad. She drew the line at busing dishes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Woman Of Substance: KATHARINE GRAHAM (1917-2001) | 7/30/2001 | See Source »

...tour, the rock provocateur shows a film that depicts her as a battered woman. Some feminists have objected. In London, M cried, "God save the Queen!" but drew catcalls for her high ticket prices. For 85[pounds], a British paper quipped, "you'd expect her to lap-dance for you privately...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Diplomats Of Rock | 7/30/2001 | See Source »

...pilots announced a disruptive ploy called "work to rule," which meant they would do all the safety checks in the pilot's manual, word-by-word, even if it delayed takeoffs and gummed up flight schedules?which is exactly what it did. Days later, a typhoon shut down Chek Lap Kok airport, totally disrupting air travel in and out of Hong Kong, and Cathay announced that the pilots' disruption only made things worse. Then the company lowered the boom, firing 49 pilots without warning?many of them union members, and some of them top organizers of the labor protest?while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Summer of Discontent | 7/23/2001 | See Source »

...when I met her. She was quick to judge someone a bore, though ready to reverse the call on receipt of evidence to the contrary. I'd been at her house for dinner 50 times before she wondered whether she might be invited to mine. "I don't mind lap eating," she said. Having missed the bustle of a happy family life, she was thrilled to pitch in and toss the salad. She drew the line at busing dishes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Woman of Substance | 7/23/2001 | See Source »

...Winners KOFI ANNAN U.N. Secretary-General gets reelected to second term with almost no discord. His simple platform: Lap-Dancing Fridays ANITA HILL David Brock apologizes for sleazing her in articles and a 1993 book. Anita celebrates by beating him senseless?then apologizing SHEIK HASINA Bangladeshi Prime Minister finishes full term in office, the first ever in country's history. Holds last-minute coup "for old times' sake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Starting Time | 7/9/2001 | See Source »

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