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...talking heads can't explain the polls' giving Bush a 56% approval rating, down just 3% from before the recount. No wonder Bush, who has become the Garbo of politics, doesn't bother talking to Big Media. The rumor mongering left him irritated enough last week that he interpreted an innocuous question as an attack. When a TIME reporter noted that his popularity was proving the pundits wrong, Bush became testy. "Who sent you here?" he asked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rumors Of His Demise... | 5/28/2001 | See Source »

...consigned Governor Jeb Bush to the chad heap of history. They clucked last month when he fought with his brother the President over oil drilling off Florida's Gulf Coast (W. wants to; Jeb does not). And they dished last week when Jeb denounced the "sickening" (and apparently unfounded) rumor that he'd had an affair with a state official, once a Playboy bunny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rumors Of His Demise... | 5/28/2001 | See Source »

...Republican. Press speculation became white hot several weeks ago that Miller was about to jump ship. The speculators apparently were ahead of Miller, who adamantly denies he was mulling a switch. "I don't want to talk about it!" Miller barked when I cornered him with the defection rumor off the Senate floor. "It's a non-story!" He walked off, muttering to himself: "This is the damnedest place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hunt for Senate Defectors | 5/21/2001 | See Source »

...These battles might rage all day, into the winter dusk. Toward the end of one day's fight, "rumor said a swarm of blackguards from the slums, led by a ghastly terror called Conky Daniels, with a club and a hideous reputation, was going to put an end to the Beacon Street cowards forever. Henry wanted to run away with the others, but his brother was too big to run away, so they stood still and waited immolation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Dodge Ball Is Good For You | 5/17/2001 | See Source »

...Lucie's face, more than any other, would eventually become synonymous with millennial Tokyo's anxieties, aspirations and insecurities. When she vanished two months later into the Tokyo night, the subject of speculation, rumor and salacious gossip, she became the poster child, literally, of a nation that was suddenly unsure of where it was going and of what was happening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lucie Blackman: Death of a Hostess | 5/14/2001 | See Source »

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