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...best education in films a young man could get, and not a bad introduction to popcorn making, carbon-arc projection, and trick double-ticketing, either. (You'll need to find a small-time exhibitor from the days before flat rate rentals to explain that lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Monkey On My Back | 3/9/2001 | See Source »

...Bush, it sounds like a big fat loophole. A lame economy isn't the only way the surplus projections can go south - an increase in government spending would do the trick just as well. And when Bush hears a Democrat talk about making sure there's money for "necessary programs" in 2005, he figures he knows what they mean: Hello spending...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Senate Moderates Pull the Trigger on Bush | 3/8/2001 | See Source »

...that they tell us what to think before we decide for ourselves. In dispensing with the bothersome chore of thought, they make it easy for us to memorize sound-bytes from the evening news and feel like political sophisticates. Sen. Tom Daschle (D-SD) and his pals know this trick well. No sooner did President George W. Bush conclude his fine speech last Tuesday than the Democrats tossed us a meaty slogan from their political banquet: The Bush tax-cut plan is unfairly biased towards the wealthy. Sound familiar? It should; we have been sucking the marrow...

Author: By Jason L. Steorts, | Title: The Income Tax Conspiracy | 3/7/2001 | See Source »

...knighted it sometimes seems he can do no right. Virgin's reams of cheerful consumer research notwithstanding, Branson came in third on bbc radio's lighthearted year-end Villain of the Year poll. And in December an unauthorized biography by journalist Tom Bower-which seems to try the fancy trick of painting Branson as both a Machiavellian schemer and a reckless fool-ranked alongside Branson's own autobiography on the Sunday Times business best-seller list. (Branson has sued Bower for libel over a newspaper article...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle Aged Virgin | 3/5/2001 | See Source »

Junior Kristy Zamora accounted for half of Brown's offensive output against Providence by netting her second hat trick of the season in the 6-1 rout...

Author: By Tyson E. Hubbard, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: W. Hockey Roundup: Harvard Shoots For First in Final Weekend | 2/28/2001 | See Source »

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