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It's not easy being green. More specifically, it wasn't easy being Mark Green last week, when New York City's public advocate--the early front runner in the race to succeed Rudy Giuliani as mayor--swept into an awards breakfast in Harlem, and nobody seemed to care. Green...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Much For Gracie Mansion? | 6/18/2001 | See Source »

But for all their howling, Democrats are wrong if they think this commission is just going to rubber-stamp the president's position. Why? Because the president doesn't have much of a position. Much like the wispy specifics in his National Missile Defense plan yesterday, Bush has artfully ducked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Bush's Social Security Panel Could Be the Real Deal | 5/2/2001 | See Source »

The harmless drivel they pump out for the next hour is entirely uninteresting. Their attempt at a bad boy look, with all-black outfits and the occasional smoldering glance would probably have elicited multiple beatings in a rough neighbourhood. As vocalists, their wispy sound has to be augmented substantially by...

Author: By Stanley P. Chang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: O-God-Please-Stop | 4/20/2001 | See Source »

DIED. TRINH CONG SON, 62, wispy but uncompromising singer-songwriter whom Joan Baez called "the Bob Dylan of Vietnam"; of diabetes; in Ho Chi Minh City.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Apr. 16, 2001 | 4/16/2001 | See Source »

Do we stay or leave? It was a question Hawaneen, a hollow-cheeked Afghan with a wispy beard, had debated with his elders for many weeks, while the famine--the worst in 30 years--tightened its grip on the village. Would they stand a better chance of survival if they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hell Freezes Over | 3/5/2001 | See Source »

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