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...general voting sentiment. And, as the talking heads, ever anxious to keep the contest alive, are quick to point out, while the support of the religious right was a wonderful tool for Bush in South Carolina, in more moderate states it may prove to be something of a monkey on the governor's back. As TIME political columnist Margaret Carlson told CNN on Saturday night, "Bush has painted himself into a corner in the past couple of weeks. He's now a self-styled bedrock conservative who could be President of South Carolina...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Now John McCain Is a Very Long Shot | 2/19/2000 | See Source »

...twins have the supernatural strength to defy the Burmese army and allow them to return to a peaceful life free of outside interference. Plee, the refugee Karen woman, nostalgically recalled a Christmas feast in 1998 in Ka Mar Pa Law, where the main dishes were a giant lizard, monkey, deer and wild vegetables. "We ate three times a day, and there was singing and dancing all night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Leading God's Army | 2/7/2000 | See Source »

...McDonald's and Coca-Cola, companies once considered dependable for creative advertisements, were replaced by no-name dot.com companies. And the dot.coms took expensive advertising time, put on cheap ads and got everyone's attention. The profusion left them all muddled together--I remember cowboys herding cats and a monkey dancing, but I cannot remember any of the names of the companies or what the advertisements hoped to promote...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: DARTBOARD: The Editors Take Aim at the Good, the Bad and the Ugly | 2/4/2000 | See Source »

...performing 1 trillion computations each second - to trace AIDS's evolution back to a single "starter" strain dating from around 1930. The team suspects that one person or a small group of people became infected with the virus through some kind of contact (a bite or accident) with a monkey carrying the strain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Finding New Roots of the AIDS Family Tree | 2/2/2000 | See Source »

...what you will about Dan Burton - and INS lawyers are saying plenty right about now - the Indiana Republican knows how to throw a legislative monkey wrench. Immigration and Naturalization Services officials spent the weekend working to determine whether the eleventh-hour subpoena Burton filed Friday for Elian Gonzalez to testify before Congress February 10 will preclude the agency from returning the six-year-old boy to his father in Cuba by its stated deadline of January 14. And while Burton, a legislative ally of anti-Castro senator Jesse Helms, could be expected to find some way to both keep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Burton Keeps Gonzalez Adrift in Legal Limbo | 1/9/2000 | See Source »

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