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...Luckily, only three of them are significantly present in One Night at McCool's. If she had had any more boys to toy with, this movie might have turned into a sobering study in multiple-personality disorder. Instead, it remains a sort of low-rent Rashomon that is the smartest, funniest, most cleverly structured comedy of the year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Sex, Lies And DVD Player | 5/7/2001 | See Source »

...Someday, write a book about all this," John Kennedy said to me weeks later when we talked calmly in the Oval Office. "I want to know how all this could have happened. There were 50 or so of us, presumably the most experienced and smartest people we could get, to plan such an operation. Most of us thought it would work. I know there are some men now saying they were opposed from the start. I wasn't aware of any great opposition. Even Bill Fulbright [Senator, who later claimed to have heatedly protested the invasion plans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Lesson John Kennedy Learned From the Bay of Pigs | 4/16/2001 | See Source »

...shun foreign stocks. Instead, learn the smartest new thinking about how to play them. Modest exposure to foreign stocks--15% to 20% of a stock portfolio--can still help investors reduce risk while boosting returns. The key is owning the right foreign stocks. And these days that usually means focusing on small companies, which are best bought through a mutual fund. Why is smaller better? As the economy has gone global, large companies increasingly sell their stuff everywhere. Their fortunes (and stocks) move together. So Royal Dutch Shell doesn't provide much diversification if you already own Chevron...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Global Investing: Lots of Room to Grow | 4/9/2001 | See Source »

...single test that isn't even based on school curriculums count for so much? The smartest thing to do would be to give the SATS less value. But some of the "alternatives" to the SATS unhinged my jaws. I believe that knowing mathematical formulas is still more reasonable for a standardized test than constructing Lego robots or writing cartoon captions. KAREN CHENG Plano, Texas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 2, 2001 | 4/2/2001 | See Source »

...Turn the tax cut into a crisis response. Take the smartest things about Toomey's $2.2 trillion monster - namely, its speed - and blend it with the best of the Democratic objections over fiscal sanity. Let the Senate moderates have their written-in "trigger," or "mid-course correction," however they want to name it (Bush ought to know there'll be one of those in November 2004 anyway) and back-load the debt repayment instead of the tax cuts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Good Time for Bush to Up the Ante on His Tax Cut? | 3/15/2001 | See Source »

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