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...presidency, then 90% of the country is qualified. From Oprah you can learn that the best gift Bush has ever given was a kiss to his wife (don't parse that either), that he loves his kids, and that he can sometimes deploy his mother's acerbic wit. But if you're more worried about your Social Security check than congeniality, I suggest you flip over to C-SPAN...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Oprah Primary | 9/23/2000 | See Source »

...remember going to Texas in 1988 with the Dukakis campaign and hearing the state's highway commissioner and designated Democratic wit, Jim Hightower, tell a crowd, "When ignorance goes to $25 a barrel, I want the drilling rights on George Bush's head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: George W.'s Ordeal by Oprah | 9/20/2000 | See Source »

...with a pair of gold medals at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, she has wowed sports fans with graceful and tenacious swordswomanship, adding three world championship titles to a list of international laurels. Away from her foils, the stunning 28-year-old has enhanced her celebrity status with flourishes of wit and charm that have made her a star with a larger French public that doesn't know an epee from its elbow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Summer Olympics: Laura Flessel-Colovic | 9/11/2000 | See Source »

...party tonight for Terry McAuliffe, chief pimp of the Democratic Party fund-raising machine," says Mark, half threadbare chic and half Rat Pack cool. "It's hosted by Patton Boggs, this big law firm, so these are Public Enemies No. 1 and 2. Check out their website." (To wit: "Patton Boggs was among the first national law firms to recognize that all three branches of government could serve as forums in which to achieve client goals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Los Angeles: Spies in Their Midst | 8/28/2000 | See Source »

...long suspension. I tried to guess where they would come up again. I waited. I guessed wrong, as I always do. After a moment or two, they popped up in an opposite, unexpected quarter. The loon is a deadpan wit. We repeated the game three times. At last, they tired of me, and vanished. As I paddled across flat water to the dock, I heard a single loon call in the swampish bay beyond the lodge - the loneliest sound on earth, a premonition of winter, of what's to come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Magnificent, Maddening Muskie | 8/23/2000 | See Source »

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