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...budget battle without dropping its focus on the rest of the President's agenda. Bush needs to speak out enough about the slowdown so voters don't think he's detached, his advisers say, but he shouldn't talk about it so much that he keeps the woe on the front page--or worse, adds to darkening consumer sentiment. It's an imprecise balance. In speeches he talks more about how he will "work hard" to get things done in Washington--a reaction to lingering criticism of his 28-day vacation. And aides say he is going to "focus like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is This Your Father's Recession? | 9/17/2001 | See Source »

SPARE A DIME? The U.S. jobless rate is stable at 4.5%, but other signs of woe persist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Numbers: Aug. 13, 2001 | 8/13/2001 | See Source »

...Woe to the unfit first-year at UCLA, for you will soon become a hermit, locked in your tiny double in Rieber Hall for fear that someone will point and laugh. Fitness is simply life for Bruins. The John Wooden Athletic Center, located in the middle of campus, is larger than all of Adams House. Everyone here is so hard-core that you’d feel silly simply walking on a treadmill—at Wooden, they’re more like sprinting machines. Feeling particularly adventurous? Don’t miss the larger-than-life simulated mountain...

Author: By Deborah B. Doroshow, | Title: POSTCARD FROM WESTWOOD, CALIF.: The Unofficial Guide to UCLA | 7/27/2001 | See Source »

...doubts. He said McVeigh is "lucky to be in America. That this is a country who will bend over backwards to make sure that his constitutional rights are guaranteed." But that was small consolation to the victims' families, the parents and children and spouses whom McVeigh derides as the "woe is me" crowd, to whom he has never shown the least regret, other than that there were not more of them killed, that he did not bring down the entire Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. They imagine him sitting in prison, rubbing his hands together, feeling as if it were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Botching The Big Case | 5/21/2001 | See Source »

...Woe at home, rue abroad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alan Greenspan | 3/23/2001 | See Source »

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