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So what you had instead was some Republicans essentially apologizing to White for their votes. That moved the proceedings along - and also muted the possibility that White's testimony would be really explosive.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'White Hurts Ashcroft, but the Wound Shouldn't Be Fatal' | 1/18/2001 | See Source »

Well, for one thing it's probably a violation of the free trade agreements to which Washington is a signatory. The Europeans, Canadians and Latin Americans who trade freely with both Cuba and the U.S. have responded sharply to what they perceive as a U.S. attempt to impose its own...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton Tosses Bush a Cuba Hot Plantain | 1/17/2001 | See Source »

In later life, Schulz joked that he looked like a druggist. Genial, smiling, with straight white teeth and a head of silver hair, he dressed modestly in muted slacks and pastel golf sweaters. He stood a trim five feet eleven and a half inches ("I never quite got to six...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Passages: The Life and Times of Charles Schulz | 12/28/2000 | See Source »

Anderson plays Lily, handsomely, as a rare creature trapped under glass. The air thins; her breath shortens. And the viewer watches, appreciative of her plight, all but moved. The film is under glass as well. Davies, whose Distant Voices, Still Lives is a muted masterpiece, here is closer to Masterpiece...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Twelve Films Of Christmas | 12/25/2000 | See Source »

Perhaps the best example of the brilliance of the orchestration was in the third movement nocturne, in which Corigliano attempted to recreate the sound he heard during a stay in Morocco, when the calls of muezzins from different mosques collided and "created a glorious counterpoint." In the symphony, beautiful dovetailing...

Author: By Anthony Cheung, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A New Work for the Ages: The BSO Premieres Corigliano | 12/15/2000 | See Source »

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