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...Politics has become a ridiculous Punch and Judy show, a senseless struggle between people of overweening personal ambition surrounded by the jackal howls of the media...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: News Is Not Life | 12/16/2000 | See Source »

...still struggling to score goals, and we just couldn't get the knockout punch there for a while" UNH Coach Richard Umile said. "After all that work, you don't want it to be a one-goal hockey game. But we came back in the end to score a couple of pretty goals to put the game away...

Author: By Jennie L. Sullivan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Men's Hockey Drops to No. 4 New Hampshire, 4-1 | 12/15/2000 | See Source »

...tendencies that Connery has honed for so long. Thus, when Forrester rails against his life’s misfortunes, his attitude seems unreal, an instrument of the plot. When he cries, he’s positively painful to watch. And when he shouts at Jamal to “Punch the keys, for God’s sake!” as he types, it’s a meaningless snatch of adrenaline meant to look snazzy in his Oscar nomination clip...

Author: By Benjamin J. Soskin, CONTIBUTING WRITER | Title: Writer's Block: Forrester Falls Flat | 12/15/2000 | See Source »

...that their testimony took up most of the day. Bush's team offered two witnesses and planned to call 18 more. At times the proceedings dwelled on small but crucial matters, like whether old chads build up behind ballots and sometimes prevent a hole from being fully punched. Gore won a victory on that point, but Bush lawyer Phil Beck expertly cross-examined the Gore team's statistician, Yale professor Nicolas Hengartner. The professor had to admit that he had in fact never inspected a certain ballot that he claimed to have examined in his affidavit. The embarrassing admission didn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election 2000: May It Please The Court | 12/11/2000 | See Source »

This type of transformation isn't easy for hip-hop performers, RZA admits, noting, "We've had accountants quit on us saying, 'I can't take it. I don't know if I'm gonna get punched in my face if I f___ up.' It's not that we're gonna punch someone in the face. It's just that we talk different from them and they take it the wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Remaking Wu | 12/11/2000 | See Source »

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