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...that extra $300 in every wallet to find its way back into the economy as the fall progresses. His political future - not to mention that of his Republican compatriots in Congress - may be riding on it, as Bush?s father can attest. In Washington, it?s still the economy, stupid, and if consumers ever stop spending we?ll be in a recession by Thanksgiving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Person of the Week: The American Consumer | 8/30/2001 | See Source »

...know what passes for summer entertainment these days: big, stupid movies and demeaning "reality" shows. On a lucky night you might get Connie Chung grilling Gary Condit - a fellow of such haplessness and Waspish weasality that, in the inevitable movie version, he?ll have to be played by Wil-liam H. Macy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Mercury, God of Radio | 8/27/2001 | See Source »

...parody in the Onion was headlined STUDY REVEALS: BABIES ARE STUPID. According to "research," infants cannot learn to scuba dive or read a map. The joke works because our expectations of babies' intelligence have been inverted--a small sign of the revolution brought about by Spelke's work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Developmental Psychology: Baby Monitor | 8/20/2001 | See Source »

...that Rat Race avoids piety entirely. It ends with a near orgy of unpersuasive show-biz sentimentality. But up till then it's a fine madness, full of jaunty desperation, survivable disasters and the kind of ferocious concentration on a really stupid idea that once propelled Wile E. Coyote through--come to think of it--a similarly bleak and comically perilous American landscape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Good Old-Fashioned Lunacy | 8/20/2001 | See Source »

...That his case has become a focal point for U.S.-Japan relations bodes badly for Woodland, as does continuing media coverage of subsequent stupid escapades by servicemen. Over a single steamy week in late July, one U.S. serviceman in Okinawa fired a BB gun at pizza-delivery boys, another tipped over a stranger's motor scooter, another set fire to a car and a Lance Corporal Marine got sentenced to five years in Japanese prison for repeated arson attacks on stores...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Okinawa Nights | 8/13/2001 | See Source »

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