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Every talented politician has a sweet spot--the issues that stir his deepest feelings, trigger his best thinking and ignite his most persuasive oratory. John McCain's sweet spot may be the smallest of all the presidential contenders', but it's also the most powerful. He's like an old-fashioned persimmon-wood golf club--hit it just right, and the ball sails a mile; miss by a hair, and it squibs into the rough. Ask him what's wrong with the campaign-money game or Clinton's foreign policy, and McCain can be dazzling--puzzled and outraged but full...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign 2000: McCain Hits The Sweet Spot | 11/15/1999 | See Source »

...observations of dysfunctional personal and family life in modern China do not fit into the State's project of socialist utopia. By making films that force the Chinese to look into amirror of their own experiences, he seeks to "provoke Chinese people's thinking about their real lives and stir their memories of what has happened in the past." Yet even Zhang seems wary of his own medicine: he has not let his family see his films because watching them "invokes too much pain...

Author: By Shannon May, | Title: Cinemanic -- ZHANG YUAN: A Portrait of the Young Artist | 11/12/1999 | See Source »

...splash of white wine follows a slow and deliberate stir. Within minutes, dinner is served. A manly man does not pay too much attention to what he eats. "He is not an aesthete." A self-described wine connoisseur, Mansfield views the manly man as uncultured and unintellectual: "He must be unrefined." Asked if a scholar can in any way be manly, he said, "[only] if he gets women to do everything...

Author: By Alicia A. Carrasquillo, Sarah L. Gore, and Samuel Hornblower, S | Title: Fifteen Minutes: In the Kitchen with Prof. Mansfield | 11/4/1999 | See Source »

...Stir for a few minutes...

Author: By Alicia A. Carrasquillo, Sarah L. Gore, and Samuel Hornblower, S | Title: Fifteen Minutes: In the Kitchen with Prof. Mansfield | 11/4/1999 | See Source »

...Serve the stir-fry on top of noodles. Garnish with Parmesan...

Author: By Alicia A. Carrasquillo, Sarah L. Gore, and Samuel Hornblower, S | Title: Fifteen Minutes: In the Kitchen with Prof. Mansfield | 11/4/1999 | See Source »

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