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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...coming man. "You've got to have a go. Get stuck into it." Conga line of suckholes. "If the other side is throwing punches, it's my job to whack them back as hard as I can." "I'm a hater." Arse licker. "It's a great Australian phrase ? and it's an accurate description of the Prime Minister's behavior in Washington." Australia First. "Bush himself is the most incompetent and dangerous President in living memory." Deformed character...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gone in 60 Sound Bites | 1/26/2005 | See Source »

...DRIVER'S ARM. "I turned and chased and tackled him from behind, Johnny Raper style, and he hit the deck." "I've grown up in the western suburbs of Sydney." All my life. "Well, every now and then you've got to hold your hands up to defend yourself." Whack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gone in 60 Sound Bites | 1/26/2005 | See Source »

...policy agenda, but holding the government to account." Where is Mark Latham since the tsunami struck? LATHAM'S BLACKOUT. Anyone But Latham. "The news about my health has not been good." DEAD IN THE WATER. "I have decided to resign both as Labor leader and as member for Werriwa." Whack. "Public life can take it out of people and, after 17 years and two serious life-threatening illnesses, the time has come to put my family and my health first." Bring Back Beazley. "In politics everyone talks about family values. I would like to practice them in a normal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gone in 60 Sound Bites | 1/26/2005 | See Source »

...there's a tarantula on the angel-food cake: John's manic wife Deb (Téa Leoni). Deb is Brooks' first real villain, a character everyone in the film can reject. Leoni, investing an awful energy in her role, puts the pang in Spanglish and throws it out of whack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: O Come, All Ye Fight-ful | 12/19/2004 | See Source »

...whack-a-mole strategy may already be getting its first test in Mosul. The city is home to a heterogenous population of 1 million--Sunni, Kurd and Turkoman--and for months after the invasion was viewed as one of the occupation's few success stories. But locals warn that the city is slipping out of control. Foreign terrorists streaming across the border from Syria have joined forces with a Baathist resistance stocked with unemployed ex-soldiers. Insurgent attacks have grown significantly in number and lethality in recent months, and at least two or three assassination victims arrive each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War by Fits and Starts | 11/22/2004 | See Source »

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