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...true Leninist spirit, they proclaim that a "revolutionary situation" is upon us. The great masses are tired of being tyrannized by the capitalist robber barons (read: record companies) and the revolutionary leaders need only channel the rage of the masses to topple the bourgeois record companies and free humanity forever from the tyranny of the "music industry's corporate elite...

Author: By B.j. Greenleaf, | Title: The Yap of Nap | 2/20/2001 | See Source »

...Certainly these guys are impressively populist for rich old white men - it's enough to make you miss the robber barons - but the Monopoly men have certainly homed in on the repeal's political weak spots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Sign That the Death Tax May Live to See Another Day | 2/14/2001 | See Source »

...well-worn self-justification, but Ned somehow makes it seem fresh and persuasive. What chance does he have, apprenticed as a boy by his desperate mother to a "bushranger," i.e., highway robber, an assistant in crimes before he is old enough to shave? After he serves time in prison and tries to lead an honest life raising horses, the "traps"--police constables--keep persecuting and trumping up charges against him. Finally, he learns, they plan to track down and kill him. Ned, his younger brother Dan and two confederates ambush the ambushers and strike first: "Events continued without relent Dear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sympathy for An Outlaw | 1/22/2001 | See Source »

...Andy Rooney, by a confused Morley Safer b) A bank robber, by Miami police c) A monogamous boyfriend, by several wafer-thin women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: News Quiz Dec. 11, 2000 | 12/11/2000 | See Source »

...next afternoon at the boxing quarterfinals, there was a moment when I realized the Cold War is not only history, it's cold history. In the space of a half hour I saw Jeff Lacy, the American armed robber turned 165-pound contender, stopped by a Russian, then our 201-pound ex-con, Michael Bennett, stopped by the brilliant Cuban, Felix Savon. The crowd was very evenhanded and it wasn't until I was on my way out that I realized I had just watched two of our guys lose to a Russian and a Cuban. We used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wrap-up: Letter from Sydney | 10/2/2000 | See Source »

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