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...roommate said that the city was wonderful–“It’s like a combination of Mexico City and Paris”—and that our absent roommate was happy there. In the pictures my roommate brought back she looks happy. The tilt of her head is more coquettish than I remember, the cut of her clothes more sophisticated, her hair glossier, curlier. Because the pictures are a little overexposed, her smiles are undifferentiated bright crescents. On the telephone, after the string of foreign rings have elapsed, our absent roommate tells us she?...

Author: By Phoebe Kosman, BY THE YARD | Title: Abroad Thoughts, From Home | 2/9/2004 | See Source »

...Democratic Party since Bill Clinton. It is reborn and feisty, thanks in large part to the partisan jolt provided by Dean. The leading Democrats are now making strong, sharp arguments against the President's most fateful decisions: the blind rush into an elective war, the economic and legislative tilt toward the wealthy. If recent performances are any guide, the President hasn't developed an adequate response yet. He will have to break free from his cocoon and reacquaint himself with the public, if he hopes to find...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Bush Isn't A Shoo-In | 2/9/2004 | See Source »

...Reggie was still hurt from Vegas and we felt like we needed to give him and [junior heavyweight] Jonas [Corl] a break. Jesse also needed rest as, from this point on, the schedule for him basically goes full-tilt...

Author: By Pablo S. Torre, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fresh Faces Compete at Midlands | 1/7/2004 | See Source »

...campaign-commercial contest conceived by pop star Moby. These are the trophies of MoveOn.org an activist website with just seven staff members and no office. What it does have is an e-mail list with 1.8 million members, who have little more in common than anger and a tilt to the left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign '04: Internet Politics: MoveOn's Big Moment | 11/24/2003 | See Source »

Forty steps. Each one is a gamble: lift, lunge, tilt, then land with a stab of the foot she can't feel. The soldier who came out of Iraq on a stretcher and back to the States in a wheelchair can now, seven months later, take 40 steps by herself. Each one is a victory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At Home: The Private Jessica Lynch | 11/17/2003 | See Source »

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