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...until he and Joe Hockey, Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, finally exhausted the gig last week), Rudd was exposed to, and thus became one of the few M.P.s known by, the politically disengaged: busy mothers and retirees turned off by issues-driven AM radio. In the show's whitebread TV family, Rudd established himself as a good sport with a sense of humor. If he appears at ease at the silly end of the media circus or slips now and then into the voice of the common man ("Fair shake of the sauce bottle" or "Back in Brissy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Radiant Art of Doing A Kevin | 4/19/2007 | See Source »

...weeks. The eldest son, played by Ben Chaplan, is unable to cry for his mother. His performance is touching—that is, when one is not distracted by hints of a foreign accent and skin color that calls to mind a foreign exchange student amongst his freckle-faced, whitebread siblings. Julianne Nicholson, playing the only girl of the four and her mother’s best friend, refuses to leave the house even for a moment and is constantly doling out advice from self-help books such as “How to Die”. The third child...

Author: By Abigail J. Crutchfield, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Two Weeks | 3/15/2007 | See Source »

...most of whom were incubated in trade unions and the party's Sussex Street hatchery in Sydney. They belong to different Labor factions, even sub-factions. They come from various parts of Sydney (God's own Sutherland Shire, the hommos belt of Canterbury-Bankstown) and the state (the whitebread Hunter and Central Coast regions). Variously Roman Catholics, Orthodox Christians or Jews, who presumably barrack for the Dragons, Knights, Sharks, Roosters and Bulldogs, they are a mix of lawyers, engineers and political hacks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Peeling Back Australia's Identity | 8/6/2006 | See Source »

...when their kids are asleep is a fresh phenomenon. But the polls show that Americans still cling to pot's forbidden status, which is why the pro-pot people are working so hard. "You would think you would get a change, but you're not going to," says Charles Whitebread, a law professor at the University of Southern California who has written extensively on marijuana law. "Even though it did nothing to them, the fear that it will somehow pollute their children has made some of the people who used marijuana extremely freely now say, 'Oh, gee, I wouldn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Politics Of Pot: CAN IT GO LEGIT? | 11/4/2002 | See Source »

...most trouble this season, and another is what is properly termed mojo: Staff ace Kevin Brown and catcher Jim Leyritz were Series heroes in the past two seasons. Still another is character: Like the Yankees, the Pods' people are hard to hate, with nice-guy Gwynn leading a whitebread team low on ego and high on winning. When the series opens in the Bronx on Saturday night, David Justice will be playing golf. Who are the Yankee fans supposed to scream profanities at? Gwynn? Hitchcock or Leyritz, both ex-Yankees? Not to worry -- the Bleacher Bums will think of something...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: But Series-ly, Folks | 10/15/1998 | See Source »

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