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...House of Representatives in a resounding rollback of the government?s right to confiscate the property based on pure suspicion ?- like nabbing someone carrying a lot of cash because he might be dealing drugs. "During impeachment, Judiciary Committee members would always say that their reputation for contentiousness was overblown, that they were always working together quietly on other issues," says TIME congressional correspondent John Dickerson. "Here?s the proof...
Bush and his friends say the media have made too much of his drinking, that the W didn't stand for Wild, that the rumors are overblown. (Bush now jokes about the stories: "I bought cocaine at my dad's Inauguration," he facetiously told a writer for Texas Monthly.) Among Bush's Midland crowd, the favorite mind-altering substances were beer and whiskey. And most people say Bush's consumption was not especially gaudy...
With my father and me, it was World War III (All-Nukes) much of the time, yet even in more serene relationships, everything gets overblown. Children strain to get their arms around their father's thighs. Too thick, too strong. Today my boys can beat me in arm wrestling without half trying. My daughter can outrun me in a race; no sweat. But they do not savor these victories. I am the father who should not be conquered. One afternoon when I was 14, my father, once a powerful and muscular swimmer, ran out of breath as we swam...
...Christopher Cox sternly warned last week that China has been inducing its U.S. business partners to provide it with military-related technology, and momentum is growing in Congress for a crackdown on this kind of seepage. But the tech industry, and some outside observers, say the risks are being overblown--and some of the tighter rules being considered would be ineffective or even counterproductive...
Mansun sets itself apart from most art-rock by occasionally throwing the listener a life preserver. "Negative" is a slicing, biting rock stomp and "Legacy" clears the air with its crisp and tender crescendos. Overall, it's a godless, fearless, overblown and manipulative stab at the center of your music consciousness. Listening to Six, at first, is a battle. In the end, the fight makes and album even more rewarding...