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...stuck making excuses to our co-workers, most of who have taken to giggling uncontrollably whenever the topic of our Beltway job search comes up. We were never serious, we say (especially to our bosses). We thought it would just be a lark, we say, and we laugh. But behind the laughter, we, for perhaps the first time, truly know pain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How We Applied for a Job in the Bush Administration — and Didn't Even Get a Rejection Letter | 1/30/2001 | See Source »

After a couple of days wandering the show, and incidents like this, you don't know whether to laugh or cry. You encounter folks such as Carole Lieberman, self-styled "Media Psychiatrist." Clearly aiming at the Dr. Laura market, she is touting several "reality" programs, including "Dr. Carole's Couch" in which "you're a fly on the wall watching real therapy." She proudly announces that her patients include "faces from the hit television shows 'Survivor,' 'Big Brother' and 'Who Wants To Marry A Millionaire?'" It's a relief to know that people from reality shows can have a soft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hot Dogs, Hot Pizzas and Hot Hooters Girls | 1/26/2001 | See Source »

...know the kinds of charges that get thrown across marriage counselors' desks. She nags. He's withdrawn. We don't talk, laugh or have sex anymore. What to do? Well, what about this: the wife should stop controlling, criticizing and interrupting her husband. If she slips up, she should apologize for being "disrespectful." She should give him the checkbook and leave the bills, investments and purchases to him. She should tell him what she wants, but if he doesn't agree, she should stay mum and do what he wants. As for sex, at least once a week even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I Surrender, Dear | 1/22/2001 | See Source »

...Which is, of course, women. The host-club industry is roaring, Reiji says, because it focuses relentlessly on the most powerful segment of Japan's faltering consumer market. "As a host and as a businessman, I use what I know to try to think like a woman. Japanese men laugh at that," Reiji says softly, leaning in close. "But I tell you, any business today that doesn't know what women want is a business that won't survive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rent Boys | 1/21/2001 | See Source »

...confidence. With the courts rather than the polls deciding elections, America may have forever lost its place as the world's bastion of democracy and equity. The damage from the fallout of this election may be irreparable. Countries where Jimmy Carter supervised elections must be having a good laugh. OBI ENE New City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 15, 2001 | 1/15/2001 | See Source »

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