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...most painful conversation I keep overhearing - other than "I'm getting into the elevator now. You're breaking up" - is the one in which people complain about gas prices. It has become such an incessant whine that the Senate set up an entire subcommittee on how to fix the problem, taking away valuable time Senators should have spent trying to woo James Jeffords with hookers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Relief From Painful Gas | 6/4/2001 | See Source »

...most painful conversation I keep overhearing--other than "I'm getting into the elevator now. You're breaking up"--is the one in which people complain about gas prices. It has become such an incessant whine that the Senate set up an entire subcommittee on how to fix the problem, taking away valuable time Senators should have spent trying to woo James Jeffords with hookers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Relief from Painful Gas | 6/4/2001 | See Source »

...Same Whine, New Bottle: New Gingrich now has competition for title of "Politician Who has Made the Most Impetuous Move after a Perceived Snub." The former Speaker said he'd shut down the government after getting a bad seat on Air Force One. Jeffords changed the power structure of the Senate because he wasn't invited to a teacher of the year ceremony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Few Consequences of the Jeffords Switch | 5/24/2001 | See Source »

...Some minutes later, Kerrey recalls, the squad spotted four or five huts by the faint flicker of candles inside. Then out of the night came the whine of gunfire. "We returned it," says Kerrey, giving the order for his men to unleash a ferocious barrage of automatic rifle rounds, grenades and armor-piercing rockets. In the flashing tracer light, no one could see who was being hit. The assault lasted only a few minutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fog of War | 5/7/2001 | See Source »

Some minutes later, Kerrey recalls, the squad spotted four or five huts by the faint flicker of candles inside. Then out of the night came the whine of gunfire. "We returned it," says Kerrey, giving the order for his men to unleash a ferocious barrage of automatic rifle rounds, grenades and armor-piercing rockets. In the flashing tracer light, no one could see who was being hit. The assault lasted only a few minutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fog Of War | 5/7/2001 | See Source »

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