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Growing up as a woman of African descent in Ireland, Mumba says, "I never felt different. There's been a little twang of racism recently, because all of a sudden a lot of [Third World] refugees have come to Dublin, and it has been very hard for Ireland to adjust. But people are getting used to it now." Mumba's own adjustment, from relative unknown to international pop star, should be no problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Irish Spring | 11/6/2000 | See Source »

...prefer George W.'s response to the 34-year-old single woman in the third debate who asked how his tax plan would affect her: "You get a plan that will include prescription drugs...You're going to live in a peaceful world...It's less likely that you'll be harmed in your neighborhood"? Is it for thinking like this that Bush has received a press pass to the election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign 2000: The Case for Gore | 11/6/2000 | See Source »

...also, a chance to say no. It's your money. You take it back. I want to give a quarter of the surplus back to you, so that nobody pays more than a third of their salary in income taxes, so that nobody feels that moving up in the world, setting aside a little money, will only make them a bigger target for the IRS. That's not right. That's not what America was built on. That's not how I want this country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: If Al and Dubya Had a Final 15 Minutes of TV Time... | 11/6/2000 | See Source »

...supply-siders everywhere. Bob Dole lifted a clip from the "Daisy" ad for a 1996 attack spot against Clinton. The Gore camp bashed Bush for pollution in Houston (substitute "Bush," "Dukakis" and "Boston Harbor," and you've got 1988) and tagged Bush as the failed governor of a Third World-like backwater (Bush, Clinton, Arkansas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign Ad Nauseam | 11/4/2000 | See Source »

...Most Eligible Bachelor (Third World) nomination b) The Gaddafi Human Rights Prize c) The Fidel Castro Prize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: News Quiz Oct. 30, 2000 | 10/30/2000 | See Source »

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