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Colin Powell may be a hero, but he doesn't bake cookies for foreign leaders like Madeline Albright. He's also not pen pals with Kim Il Jung. Paul O'Neill is no Lloyd Bentsen, or Bob Rubin either. John Ashcroft may hold the perfect beliefs of an Attorney General from 125 years ago, but he will never welcome us to Janet Reno's Dance Party and tell us to "Stop moshing!" In fact, Ashcroft is so conservative that he refused to dance at his own gubernatorial inaugural ball in Missouri. Labor Secretary Chao can see over a podium. Clinton...

Author: By Joshua I. Weiner, | Title: Requiem for a Team | 2/7/2001 | See Source »

...substance rather than style, "Big Mon" is more concerned with exploring the possibilities of Monroe's songs than strictly rendering them in the idiom that he invented, which may explain the shortage of instrumentals or breakneck showstoppers; there is a hoedown finale of "Big Mon" but no "Uncle Pen," "Rawhide" or "Hoppin' John." What we do get is Bruce Hornsby turning in an unexpectedly effective, moody version of "Darlin' Corey," John Fogerty lending the Creedence treatment to "Blue Moon of Kentucky," and the Dixie Chicks showing off creditable playing skills in their duet with Skaggs on "Walk Softly," which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bluegrass Just Keeps Growing | 2/1/2001 | See Source »

Lacking a gavel to pass, Driskell handed her favorite pen to incoming council President Gusmorino...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: After Months of Debate, Council Asks for Ivy Council Reforms | 1/8/2001 | See Source »

...even accosting customers in drugstore parking lots, on a hunch that they might be carrying the sought-after drug, say Bangor authorities. OxyContin rings get prescriptions from sloppy or questionable doctors and use the usual means of forging them, either by photocopying the form or by using a pen to change a prescription for 10 tablets, for example, to 100. The truly inventive ones ask their doctors for another drug, then take the prescription form home, soak the ink off with chemicals and write themselves a new prescription...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Potent Perils Of a Miracle Drug | 1/8/2001 | See Source »

...known for the graceful style of the prose he wrote in ballpoint pen or banged out on a typewriter that he customized with logical symbols...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Philosopher Quine Dies at 92 on Christmas Day | 1/5/2001 | See Source »

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