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...could be the Democrat who depletes his money fighting a pesky primary opponent and then gasps his way through a long, hot summer. If Bush wins the nomination while hoarding his money, he'll be in a position to do to Gore or Bradley what Clinton did to Dole--pin his cash-poor rival to the ground with a steady barrage of attack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Money Chasm | 7/12/1999 | See Source »

Movies have had way too much fun with Italian-American stereotyping, but Lee plays it dead serious, unendurably shrill--and for an endless 2 hrs. 20 min. Still, we can't pin all the blame for ethnic defamation on Lee; his screenwriters are Victor Colicchio and Michael Imperioli. To them, we cry, like a stern Italian grandma, "Vergogna!" That's how you say "Shame on you" in Italian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bronx Bull | 7/5/1999 | See Source »

...Kosovo, paramilitary units like Frenki's worked in concert with the VJ and the special-police units, as well as local Serbian civilians who joined in the savagery. All lines led straight back to Belgrade, and this time, unlike in Bosnia, there is no wiggle room for Milosevic to pin the blame for atrocities on "uncontrolled elements" and independent paramilitaries. Here's how Western diplomatic and Serbian sources say it worked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crimes Of War | 6/28/1999 | See Source »

...order to help pin down these policy-averse politicians populating the worldwide muddle of the middle, TIME Daily has developed six non-mutually exclusive archetypes to which every middle-grounder worth his or her salt will strive to conform ?- and then matched them with some of the politicians practicing the centrist art today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Art of Winning the Middle | 6/25/1999 | See Source »

...they headed out into a new life, the graduates weren't thinking about what might be taken away but what could be got back. Albert Merrill, 55, a former clerical worker, holds out his 28-day pin and six-month coin, and next month will pass his first year sober. He dreams of the day when he can walk back into the life of his ex-wife and kids. "This is a gift," he says quietly of his diploma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Harvard vs. the School Of Hard Knocks | 6/21/1999 | See Source »

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