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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Steven Wise assesses the scene with a professional eye. He concedes that Marbury is a wimp. He praises Alice for her social graces. And he calculates that for the moment, Christopher and Siena, dervishing through the terrible twos, are less articulate, less mentally developed, than a reasonably accomplished chimpanzee or bonobo (pygmy chimp), each of whom would easily outdistance the twins in communication skills, memory and complex consciousness of the world around them. So: Should the chimps, who possess better minds, have some of the legal protections that the twins, by birth, enjoy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Standing Up for Rover | 3/13/2000 | See Source »

...team devised a two-pronged strategy aimed at shoring up his image and conservative credentials while carpet-bombing McCain with attacks that portrayed the Arizonan as a hypocrite and a closet liberal. The first part of the plan would be carried out by Bush himself, who had a "wimp factor" to contend with. To allay post-New Hampshire doubts that he wasn't tough enough to go the distance, the Governor attacked McCain in a series of press conferences beginning just days after New Hampshire. Bush started out by calling McCain a Republican who took "Democrat" positions favored by "Bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Read My Knuckles | 2/28/2000 | See Source »

...Whackin' Yakin' Punchin' Pals: The punching bag that talks trash: "Come here, wimp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For the Little Monster | 2/28/2000 | See Source »

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