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Elizabeth Dole gets ready for every event as if she's having tea with the Queen. At a rally in a tobacco warehouse so humid we all feel like chain smokers, Dole appears in a bubble-gum pink suit with beige pumps and stockings. If someone were to, say, spill barbecue on her, a mint green spare is hanging in her Buick sedan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stealth Warriors From Washington | 10/14/2002 | See Source »

...QAEDA, Sept. 23], noted that he was subjected to three months of "psychological interrogation tactics." That phrase is nothing but a euphemism for plain old torture. I fully appreciate that these terrorists are extremely tough characters and that an element of torture may be necessary to get them to spill the beans. But the U.S.'s democratic system may be harmed by something far more perilous than acts of terrorism: the worm of deceit. The preservation of democracy may require the use of wicked actions, but any act deemed too wicked to speak of plainly must be too wicked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 14, 2002 | 10/14/2002 | See Source »

...might be more helpful for Saddam’s image if he would cast that light on his emotions instead. Maybe Saddam could tape a couple of sessions with his psychiatrist and send them to Al-Jazeera. If Saddam really cared about winning over our adoration he could spill his guts about the family troubles he’s been having since he murdered his defector son-in-law, or he could have a manly cry about not quite destroying Iran in the 80’s. None of these regrets would have to be sincere—when Tony...

Author: By Jonathan P. Abel, | Title: Saddam Soprano | 10/2/2002 | See Source »

...Juche?Self-Reliance?and easing toward economic and political engagement. The zone could prove to be another of North Korea's grandiose white elephants, like the 105-story, pyramid-shaped Ryugyong Hotel that towers, unfinished, over the Pyongyang skyline. But if it works, new ideas and fresh money could spill over the city's whitewashed walls and cascade across the country's brainwashed citizens. "Once this succeeds," says a confident Yang, the new chief executive of the Sinuiju SAR, "the whole country may be open...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hermit Kingdom's Bizarre SAR | 9/30/2002 | See Source »

...your CD player: Built to Spill...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dormroom Dialogue | 9/26/2002 | See Source »

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