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...wife Marianne returned from a trip to Europe to discover a sickly sweet smell permeating their home. Then Les found the source: Jamon's decomposing body in the backseat of a restored Cadillac in the attached four-car garage. Jamon had apparently suffocated himself with carbon-monoxide fumes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brother To Brother | 9/4/2000 | See Source »

...bicycle and waltzing to her grandmother's house each afternoon for games of killer badminton, followed by intense spoiling sessions. (Sample dialogue: "More ice cream, dear?" "Don't mind if I do!") Then, last week, tragedy struck: I told her to mulch the flower bed. My daughter is sweet and helpful, as long as the chore is a) interesting, b) fun or c) profitable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What, Me Mulch? | 9/4/2000 | See Source »

...Jones is always sweet and usually emphatic. She is asked as she sits there whether her storied who's-running-for-second-place? confidence has been overhyped. Her answer is delivered without a trace of meanness, but it is definite: "I do see it like that - that I'll win. When people are taken aback by that, I'm surprised. I would hope those women you saw racing against me last night are going to the Games to win. I don't know how realistic it is for everybody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Meet the Marvelous Marion Jones | 9/1/2000 | See Source »

Coming out of the Republican convention, Bush had the race won on style, personality and guy points. But Gore brilliantly used Los Angeles (the family, Karenna's sweet speech, bouncy Tipper, and above all The Kiss) to neutralize the Something's-Wrong-With-Gore problem. W.'s loose Texas normality and gentleman's C in gravitas is no longer sufficient. Gore isn't prohibitively weird anymore to independents, but seems, on the contrary, to be likeable, presentable, acceptable. Los Angeles all but destroyed Bush's atmospheric advantage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Playing Rough, Bush Runs a Big Risk | 8/31/2000 | See Source »

...Here we have a spontaneous effusion of the un-Clinton - a display of ardent monogamy that was sweet, touching, genuine, a different way of saying a) "I am my own man," and b) "I am also, entirely, Tipper's man." And who would have thought Al Gore would be such a great kisser...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Al and Tipper's Big Kiss Is So-o-o-o Sixties | 8/28/2000 | See Source »

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