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...rallying cry. "Common sense conservatism" doesn't have quite??the ring of "Straight Talk Express." But the new slogan on the website of John McCain's presidential exploratory committee--a slogan he manages to repeat at least three times in every speech he gives these days--tells you all you need to know about how different this presidential campaign will be from his last one. McCain '08 will be a bigger, more conventional operation--a tank, not a slingshot. The prevailing wisdom about McCain used to be that his bipartisan appeal would make him a sure bet in a presidential...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Perils of Being a Frontrunner | 12/10/2006 | See Source »

Ulrika Woytich, a young woman with an irresistible personality, a consuming ambition and a total lack of scruples, comes up to Vienna "on the make." It is her intention to windlass the family fortune out of a miserly and almost?not quite???inhuman old uncle who has previously cheated her father and would apparently prefer to see her starve to death. It is in the midst of this undertaking, however, that accident opens a more brilliant prospect. The family of Helmut Mylius, a curio dealer, has been kept by him in a state of semi-starvation, shabbiness and sullen despair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gold*: What's Wrong with the World? | 6/16/1924 | See Source »

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