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Nonetheless the Administration continues to insist that the President will produce a coherent--if unspecified--global-warming policy soon. Environmentalists are fearing the worst. Before Bush's CO2 reversal, the White House created a so-called carbon rump group to reassess the U.S. position on emissions. An Administration official insists that the work the panel is doing is "a high-level, intense review," and while that may be true, it's also a fact that in-house study teams such as this are often simply places where orphan ideas are sent to die. More substantively, Vice President Cheney has been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Global Warming: A Climate Of Despair | 4/9/2001 | See Source »

...high-collared vest to the toes of her knee-high boots. He is all doughy hairy skin as he lies prostate on the dungeon floor, except for a tight, black patent-leather thong that squeezes rolling hills from his plump hips. She leans over the man's rump, rubs a furry cheek for aim, cocks her hand a good meter back and delivers a thunderclap wallop. Then she slings a high-heeled boot over his back and, straddling his haunches, spanks and rubs in rapid succession: hot sting, warm caress, hot sting again. Without missing a stroke, she looks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tough Love | 3/19/2001 | See Source »

...careers, Chavez has been a columnist. She has done what a columnist does: advanced provocative, impolitic ideas. She has shot off her mouth in the way that a mindful, foresighted and rump-covering politician would not. Chavez has shown a talent for infuriating liberals - for example, deriding "crybabies" for bringing certain sexual harassment lawsuits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clipped by Her Own Press Clips? | 1/8/2001 | See Source »

...hottest topic on the floor of the GOP convention? I was there, and I can give you a hint: It wasn't Colin Powell's looming Cabinet appointment, or George P. Bush's dashing good looks. It wasn't even the dizzying prospect of kicking Al Gore's rump right back to Tennessee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Take That, Hillary! Opponent Hauls in Cash | 9/1/2000 | See Source »

...want to plug or unplug anything, you have to turn the Cube upside down. Not only is this a royal pain in the rump--for its size, the Cube is a weighty beast (14 lbs.)--but it also means the on-off switch can activate again through contact with the desk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One Cool Cube | 8/28/2000 | See Source »

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