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...wait it out. Gore made it through his hazing. In the Republican primaries John McCain couldn't, lashing out at conservative leaders Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell in a way that came across as just so much screedy bleating. Now Bush must press on without the overreaction that can sink candidates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When a Campaign Is Laughing, It's in Trouble | 9/13/2000 | See Source »

...partial melting could devastate the northern hemisphere's climate. A combination of melting ice, increased precipitation and runoff from melting glaciers on land could leave a layer of buoyant freshwater floating atop the denser salt water, at a point in the North Atlantic where water ordinarily cools and sinks. The lighter freshwater wouldn't sink, interrupting the vertical circulation at a crucial point in the cycling of heat through the ocean--as if you're grabbing a conveyor belt and slowing it down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Big Meltdown | 9/4/2000 | See Source »

...hostile, so committed to satanizing the strange man from Whittier, that I find myself wanting to defend Nixon - which is quite a novel impulse for me. Even Oliver Stone, who has a minor genius for mischievous dark cartooning (as in his contemptible movie "JFK," with its hallucinations of kitchen-sink conspiracy), treated Nixon as a complex and in some ways sympathetic figure. H.R. Haldeman had it about right when he compared Nixon to "a multifaceted quartz crystal. Some facets bright and shining, others dark and mysterious. And all of them constantly changing as the external light rays strike the crystal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hack Alert! New Nixon Bio Is a Hatchet Job | 8/30/2000 | See Source »

Lynne Cheney is a very conservative woman - perhaps even more conservative than her husband, who's hardly the poster boy for moderate Republicans. And as Dick Cheney's appointment to the No. 2 spot on the GOP ticket starts to sink in, there's a growing realization - among Republicans and Democrats alike - that Lynne's penchant for right-wing ideology could be a major factor in the campaign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Second Lady-in-Waiting: Asset or Liability? | 7/26/2000 | See Source »

Business owners can also enhance their financial security by making sure they do not sink all their assets back into the business. "You do want to have a varied financial mixed portfolio that includes items like stocks, IRAs, T-bills and the like," says Tom Zanecchia, president and founder of Wealth Management Consultants, a Denver firm. "If the business should sour with the next generation and you're planning to live off only those proceeds, you may run into some hard times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business, Too Close To Home | 7/17/2000 | See Source »

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