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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...fact, a good half of them serve as election judges, which makes them the lynchpin of the entire electoral process, a thought that’s both reassuring and mildly alarming.  I met a woman who has voted for the Democrat in every presidential election since Adlai Stevenson, which is very impressive and a little sad, because what party really deserves that kind of loyalty?  And really, who wants to lose that often?  Then I saw myself in the mirror and wondered if I have fifty years of voting for losing Democrats to look...

Author: By Eric S. Fish, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A Colorful Canvas | 9/30/2004 | See Source »

...back and ride it like a cowboy. Or he'll do the funky chicken. He might pull out the robot--"It's a classic," he says, laughing. "You get this reaction from the people, like 'Oh, my God, he's doing the robot.'" Some purists aren't smiling, labeling Stevenson a showboat. But he says his antics are what the vault needs. "I'm just having a great time," says the Stanford economics grad, who plans to start his own business. "I'm not taunting anyone. This is a professional sport--it needs help. It needs fans. And if someone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Track and Field: New Kids in the Blocks | 8/9/2004 | See Source »

...Track and Field. "And I accept it." So Masback just needs Crawford and Gatlin to win medals in both sprints, then win their relays. And Felix to take the gold in the 200 m, with her smiling, stunning face a reminder of what Jones used to be. And for Stevenson to dance his way to an even higher world mark. Then he needs them and the other 110 U.S. track-and-field athletes in Greece to pass their drug tests. Then track and field can at least start healing. What a perfect place for a Herculean task...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Track and Field: New Kids in the Blocks | 8/9/2004 | See Source »

...shops will offer an array of his own private-label products. Also on display in a gallery will be selected works from the world-class art collection that was prominently featured at the Bellagio. (Wynn recently paid $8.8 million for a John Singer Sargent portrait of Robert Louis Stevenson.) While rival executives tend to mock his Renaissance-man profile, what really rankles them is his aggressive show-stealing tendencies. As Wynn's friend and fellow developer Irwin Molasky says, "Everyone is spending time anticipating and reacting to his next move." They are finding that Wynn always seems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Las Vegas Power Players | 7/26/2004 | See Source »

FATHER FIGURE Few Presidents have been bald. The last was Dwight D. Eisenhower. Luckily, he ran both times against another chrome dome, Adlai Stevenson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hair To The Chief! | 7/19/2004 | See Source »

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