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Their ability to differentiate Orange from Citrus, Bay and Lake from Gulf, Union from Dixie, and Madison from Jefferson and Washington has made them political experts...

Author: By Elijah M. Alper, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Florida Students Amused As Their State Makes Headlines | 11/17/2000 | See Source »

...From D.C. to Dixie, it's the same vocabulary of ominous synthesizer music, phony-sounding testimonials, graphics worthy of public-access cable and canned punch lines ("Wrong for the court. Wrong for our kids"). It wasn't always so. The 1964 Daisy ad was practically avant-garde. Today, while Madison Avenue produces some of the most sophisticated programming on the air, most political ads remain stuck in the Stone Age. Nader looked like a philosopher king simply for doing a couple of funny parodies of MasterCard and Monster.com spots. Both appealed smartly to voter cynicism about the major parties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign 2000: Campaign Ad Nauseam | 11/13/2000 | See Source »

Both will come in after class for makeup work when they miss a full week of school for the Chase Championship (formerly the Virginia Slims) at Madison Square Garden in New York City, which starts Nov. 13 and could very well include a face-off between the two classmates. It's conceivable that despite Davenport and that pesky No. 1 ranked Martina Hingis, Venus, with her superior court coverage, and Serena, with her greater power, could spend the next few years swapping the two top spots the way they would sweaters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Changing Courts | 11/13/2000 | See Source »

...butt of jokes, falls in love with a local girl and wins the big game, fueled by hatred for his tormentors. Although Sandler received a shared writing credit on the film, he is not named as a defendant in the lawsuit. Discerning cineastes have long known that Billy Madison was just a contemporary Wild Strawberries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 13, 2000 | 11/13/2000 | See Source »

...count in those days.) That can get to be a problem. One king is simple; 100 million kings is chaotic. Let every voice be heard is the rule in democracy, but it makes for cacophony, not harmony. "Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention," said James Madison, who helped create ours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Two Cheers for Good Old, Sloppy Democracy | 11/10/2000 | See Source »

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