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...confident to be convincing, Michael Moore's humor is based on the same presumptuous cameraderie that Rush Limbaugh uses at the other end of the political spectrum. Laid off Payday workers (the gods of irony smile on Moore) cantankerously predict disappearing markets, and Moore smiles and nods, marching off to recite such stellar observations to the front desks of corporate America, never stopping to introduce the complexities of these problems to his audience. There is no mention of inflation or of developing labor markets, except from the equally prejudiced mouths of corporate representatives. When talking to PR workers, Moore feigns...

Author: By Benjamin E. Lytal, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Moore's Latest a Bit too `Big' for Its Own Good | 4/17/1998 | See Source »

Even though nine spots separate the two teams in he national rankings, tonight's game may predict who will earn a postseason berth...

Author: By Own Break, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: M. Lax to Tackle No. 10 Minutemen | 4/15/1998 | See Source »

...rescue us from him? It's a historical tautology that leaders are generated by their times and that great issues produce great men. (One historian, in TIME's ranking of U.S. Presidents, observes that Calvin Coolidge was "unlucky" enough to live in boring times.) And while we can't predict the leaders of the next decade, let alone the century, we can at least glimpse the likely shape of their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A new century awaits, and with it new conflicts. | 4/13/1998 | See Source »

...account is a matter of great dispute, one likely to land the President's case in an Arkansas courtroom in May. But in truth the tangle of laws currently defining sexual harassment is so jumbled that even if everyone could agree on the facts, it's simply impossible to predict the outcome of a case like Jones v. Clinton. Just 25 years ago, sexual harassment was considered a radical-fringe by-product of feminist theory. Today it's embedded in multiple Supreme Court decisions (three more are expected before July), thousands of corporate policies and a host of lower-court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton's Crisis: Sex And The Law | 3/23/1998 | See Source »

...cottonwood and oak--are budding two to three weeks early, filling the air with their irritating pollen. Add torrential rains, which have produced bumper crops of wildflowers and grasses in the Southeast, along the Gulf Coast and in Southern California, and you have the makings of what some experts predict will be the worst allergy season in 20 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: El Nino's (Achoo!) Allergies | 3/23/1998 | See Source »

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