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...would Bush be willing to spook the economy he?s about to inherit? For starters, he needs to spread the idea that if things get tight for a while, the problem started before he took office. The last recession occurred during his father?s presidency. He doesn?t want the next one called Bush 2. But he also hopes to use the prospect of trouble ahead as a rationale for his proposal to cut taxes by $1.6 trillion over the next 10 years. As he said last month, ?A tax-relief plan for everybody serves as an insurance policy against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is a Tax Cut the Right Remedy? | 12/30/2000 | See Source »

...sense for me. Why? Sometimes I forward mail without looking at the attachments; in this case I would have spread a digital disease. A McAfee spokesman told me the company would fix this problem. In the meantime, I've got to find that virus demo disc. It will really spook my wife. Find a new product review every day at www.timedigital.com Questions for Josh? You can e-mail him at jquit@well.com

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Don't Bug Me! | 10/16/2000 | See Source »

...allowed Lee's lawyers to subpoena internal government documents that might shed light on whether racial profiling had been used to target Lee in the first place. Both rulings threatened to make a trial unpleasant for the government. Lee's lawyers planned to portray him as an unlikely spook, more bumbling and naive than clever and secretive, who had asked for a colleague's help in moving the files--curious tradecraft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Long Way Home | 9/25/2000 | See Source »

...allowed Lee's lawyers to subpoena internal government documents that might shed light on whether racial profiling had been used to target Lee in the first place. Both rulings threatened to make a trial unpleasant for the government. Lee's lawyers planned to portray him as an unlikely spook, more bumbling and naive than clever and secretive, who had asked for a colleague's help in moving the files - curious tradecraft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wen Ho Lee's Long Way Home | 9/17/2000 | See Source »

...rubbing shoulders with some of its most accomplished architects and repackaging President Reagan's missile defense policy. Then again, Reagan national security adviser Robert McFarlane long ago acknowledged that rather than seriously contemplating a viable defense system, his administration's missile defense policy was an elaborate sting operation to spook the Russians. Candidate Bush, however, may limit himself to spooking the electorate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For George W., Father Didn't Always Know Best | 5/24/2000 | See Source »

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