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...romantic comedy. What connected audiences to Bridget’s stories is that she was a more lovable version of us all, bumbling her way through mishap after mishap with an excess of charm. Sadly, in this movie, our everywoman, and, by extension, singletons everywhere, are turned into the nastiest joke...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Film Review | 11/12/2004 | See Source »

...Bush was foundering. His opponent in the presidential race, Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis, was doing well in the polls. That fall, however, pro-Bush forces deftly used wedge issues--particularly crime and the specter of encroaching liberalism--to cleave white working-class voters from the Democratic Party. The nastiest and most effective '88 political ad featured the hardened visage of convict William Horton, a murderer who had fled Massachusetts during a prison furlough and then stabbed a man and raped his fiancé. Republicans said Dukakis had turned his state's prison gates into "a revolving door." Dukakis pointed out that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign '04: How The Wedge Issues Cut | 10/25/2004 | See Source »

THERE WERE A LOT OF NASTY places to be in Samarra last week after U.S. and Iraqi forces began their assault early Friday morning, but one of the nastiest was with the platoon led by Lieutenant Ryan Purdy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRA | 10/11/2004 | See Source »

According to Wagoner, a good rule of thumb is to take on the “toughest, nastiest job” yourself, and focus on doing your...

Author: By Risheng Xu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: CEO Talks Trade-Offs to HBS Grads | 6/10/2004 | See Source »

...precious lives of our men and women in uniform" in Iraq--and that is where he will often run into problems. At times, his passion spills over into an almost Deanian imprudence. At a Texas fund raiser last week, Clark thundered, "We're dealing with the most closed, imperialistic, nastiest Administration in living memory. They even put Richard Nixon to shame. They are a threat to what this nation stands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Question All the Candidates Must Face | 1/26/2004 | See Source »

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