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...told the packed auditorium that she was elected to the parliament but prevented from taking her oath of office because her headscarf, associated with Muslim conservatism, was viewed as a threat to the secular culture. Her citizenship was then revoked...

Author: By Tzu-huan Lo, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Turkish Politician Speaks at IOP | 11/9/2000 | See Source »

...scandals have been as humiliating for our great republic as they have been historic in scope and size. Filegate, Travelgate, hidden e-mails, lying under oath, hell to pay, abuse of the FBI, of the personnel system; a health-care task force that violated federal law; grand juries, billing records; Lincoln bedroom, troopers, bimbos, coffees, lies. Most terribly, foreign agents carrying cash meet with our President in the Oval Office; they stand in their shiny shoes on the great seal of the United States and later receive what they want: military technology. As a result, China now has weaponry that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign 2000: The Case for Bush | 11/6/2000 | See Source »

...campaign's latest theme--"education recession"--and then touted the benefits of joining the military. A student asked Cheney what he would do first if the President were to die. Cheney said he would make sure the guy was dead. "You don't want to take the oath of office and find out the report was wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I Won't Dance, Don't Ask Me | 10/9/2000 | See Source »

...campaign's latest theme - "education recession" - and then touted the benefits of joining the military. A student asked Cheney what he would do first if the President were to die. Cheney said he would make sure the guy was dead. "You don't want to take the oath of office and find out the report was wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I Won't Dance, Don't Ask Me | 9/30/2000 | See Source »

Slowdown? Did anyone say slowdown? There have been plenty of worries about the effects of interest-rate hikes on the U.S. economy in the past few months, but when he takes the oath of office next Jan. 20, the next President, whether it's Al Gore or George W. Bush, will inherit the sunniest economic prospects to greet any new Chief Executive since Lyndon Johnson in 1963. Yes, it looks like the output of goods and services will be increasing more slowly. But the growth rate will slip only from one that clearly was too fast to last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIME Board of Economists: The Good Bad News | 9/25/2000 | See Source »

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