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...ugly charade. And although ignoring reality may seem dignified, it's really like Michael Dukakis' riding in the tank and thinking it made him look like a warrior. The lovable loser has more dignity because he keeps going despite his awareness of futility: he knows it's stupid to raise taxes and not lose every state except Minnesota, to try to kick the football while Lucy's holding it, to think dropping the AOL part from his name will fool anybody - but he tries anyway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beautiful Losers? Not These Bums | 9/22/2003 | See Source »

Proving there is at least one stupid human trick he can perform himself, DAVID LETTERMAN shared a rare piece of personal news with the Late Show audience last week: his longtime girlfriend, former Late Show staff member Regina Lasko, 42, is very pregnant. During the show, sidekick bandleader Paul Shaffer suggested that fatherhood might soften the curmudgeonly host, who underwent quadruple-bypass surgery nearly four years ago. Or maybe not. "If you look at it this way," Letterman told the audience, "at 56, by the time the child has trouble in life ... I'll be long gone. By the time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 22, 2003 | 9/22/2003 | See Source »

...Afghanistan the Taliban still exist, and Osama bin Laden has not been found. In Iraq Saddam Hussein appears to be alive, and the country is a mess. How can you call that conquest? Iraq's ruling regime was removed, but that action has benefited terrorists. Perhaps Bush was too stupid to realize that when he took on Iraq, it wouldn't be an easy task. Would he dare attack North Korea? Never. It is not that the U.S. Army is stretched too thin; it is that Americanism and Bushism are. They are found everywhere. PADDY SINGH New Delhi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 22, 2003 | 9/22/2003 | See Source »

...evolved its own cliches. These were best satirized in the 1995 movie Living in Oblivion, in which Steve Buscemi plays a director who casts a dwarf in a dream sequence, only to have the little person mock him. "The only place I've seen dwarfs in dreams is in stupid movies like this!" the tiny actor says. "Oh, make it weird, put a dwarf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HBO's Cirque du So-So | 9/15/2003 | See Source »

...yakuza kingpin, and the arrivistes find that they?not the locals?are the na?fs. The story clips along as the kidnappers scramble to salvage their plan, but the breathless blow-by-blow narration leaves little room for the main characters to evolve beyond textbook-case stupid Americans. By the time the mobsters close in, we're rooting for a speedy end to the fiasco. In that, at least, the novel delivers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bedeviled | 9/15/2003 | See Source »

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