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...know TIME's like a big magazine, so I don't like to really be talkin' like this. But people are intimidated by us. Say you're an accountant and you come to our office and see that many of us and you feel all this pressure not to mess up. A lot of people have resigned and have left also over the course of the years, because they think "Yo, I can't take it, I don't know if I'm gonna get punched in my face if I fuck up." Not that we gonna punch someone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Interview: Robert Diggs, a.k.a. the RZA | 11/17/2000 | See Source »

Both the mother and boyfriend are two of the most stereotyped characters to be brought to the stage-Ellen Casey is a hysterical mess of a New York working class widow; Anthony is a Sicilian hairdresser with very little brains. These characters are pulled off convincingly, if a bit inconsistently, but not without a lot of hands banging on the kitchen table for emphases. Needless to say, Sarah has many reasons why she would want to disappear. She deals with her problems by hanging out at a bar in Hell's Kitchen where she sings "Eleanor" by the Turtles, convinced...

Author: By Sarah E. Kramer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Beyond the Vanishing Point | 11/17/2000 | See Source »

Americans never really stop voting, and politicians never really stop campaigning - the pollsters see to that. But this is the first time that two presidential candidates have lasted this long into November, and while this whole mess looks to be firmly in the hands of the lawyering hordes, public opinion is still the golden calf before which Al Gore and George W. Bush must bow down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who's Winning the P.R. Game? | 11/16/2000 | See Source »

...where will it all end? With increasing frequency, mention is being made of the possibility that the U.S. Supreme Court will be called upon to sort out the mess. Though there are doubts that the nation's top judges will want to hear what they may consider a state matter (see below), two parallel tracks are making themselves apparent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bush Vs. Gore Vs.... Rehnquist? | 11/16/2000 | See Source »

...recounting in Florida, both the Dow and NASDAQ have been going about their bargain-hunting unperturbed by the legal and political quagmires in the Sunshine State. Both indexes posted steep three-digit gains Tuesday. On Wednesday the buyback continued - apparently some investors see an end to the Florida mess by next week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Amid the Craziness, Greenspan Stays the Course | 11/15/2000 | See Source »

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