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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...It’s unrealistic to think women will stop shopping,” Sulmers says. “So if you want this image, do it the smart way—buy it for 30 percent off with a coupon...

Author: By Christina Wells, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: In Pursuit of Perfection | 11/1/2006 | See Source »

...when U.S. troops are suffering their worst casualties in nearly two years, he insulted them. Could Karl Rove have dreamed up a better October surprise than having the Democrats' most recent choice for Commander in Chief suggest that the men and women are dying there because they weren't smart enough to get into law school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: John Kerry, Still One Step Behind | 10/31/2006 | See Source »

...reaches for fashion terms to make her point about how female ambition is thwarted: "A staple of movies, novels and TV: the hard-charging female executive in her Armani power suit and Manolo heels. She's smart, aggressive, successful--and most people can't wait to see her get her well-deserved comeuppance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nice Girls Get Even | 10/29/2006 | See Source »

Meanwhile, even as Bush was praising Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld as "a smart, tough, capable administrator," endangered Republicans like Kentucky Representative Anne Northup and Ohio Senator Mike DeWine have been joining the increasingly loud chorus of calls for the Secretary's ouster. And pressure for change is not coming only from the desperate and the wobbly. Texas Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison--a Bush loyalist well ahead in her bid for re-election--is expressing regret for her vote to authorize the invasion and is advocating partitioning Iraq along ethnic lines. "We have to step back and stop trying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bush's Lonely Election Season | 10/29/2006 | See Source »

...today what they should have owned five years ago. Currently, investors are pining for energy and commodities, but they should have owned them in the early 2000s, when they were cheap and unloved. Instead, investors coveted the high-flying tech and telecom stocks, which would have been smart purchases in the mid-1990s--except that investors were busy chasing bank stocks, which would have been shrewd purchases in 1990. You get the idea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Investing: Where Fools Rush In | 10/29/2006 | See Source »

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