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But if these two men are clearly filling a cultural need, it may come with a political price. Clinton upped the emotional ante in politics. Whether it was after the Oklahoma City bombing, where his natural empathy for the suffering rallied the whole country or whether it was his emotional...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who's Your Daddy? | 6/18/2001 | See Source »

If it's any solace, you are not alone. There's a pandemic out there of softhearted parents. According to their confidants--from psychologists, financial planners, friends and relatives to radio talk-show hosts and hairdressers--more and more adult children are relying on their mothers and fathers long after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Parents Who Give Too Much | 1/29/2001 | See Source »

Like all softhearted computer geeks, I have a profoundly emotional relationship with all things Macintosh. Windows PCs have always struck me as cold, tense machines prone to byzantine internal-code conflicts; their Apple counterparts are easygoing, intuitive open books. For very little effort, Macs provide a lot of reward. Right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stuck in an AirPort | 12/6/1999 | See Source »

DIED. WILLIE MORRIS, 64, hard-living, softhearted author; of a heart attack; in Jackson, Miss. (see EULOGY, below).

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Aug. 16, 1999 | 8/16/1999 | See Source »

And yet, "there's a heroic generosity about the man that I find enormously appealing. He literally never passed a beggar in the street without giving him money." The softhearted populist is Oscar, not Elvis, and the quote is from English playwright David Hare, whose play about Wilde, The Judas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wilde About Oscar | 5/4/1998 | See Source »

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