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...Hizballah and Hamas. But that is where the democratic idealism of the Bush Doctrine has led us. If the President turns out to be right-and let's hope he is-a century's worth of woolly-headed liberal dreamers will be vindicated. And he will surely deserve that woolliest of all peace prizes, the Nobel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Look Who Has a Shot at the Nobel Peace Prize | 3/13/2005 | See Source »

...Because in the interim, it has become clear to even the woolliest that nuclear weapons are not the threat. The threat is the intent to use them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Arms Control Is Obsolete | 8/5/1991 | See Source »

...woolliest confrontation of the week took place after the final bell sounded in a bantamweight fight. When South Korea's Byun Jong-Il lost a narrow decision, his coach and trainers, along with several Korean boxing officials, poured through the ropes and pummeled New Zealand referee Keith Walker. Byun, for his part, protested the decision by refusing to leave the ring for 67 minutes. Byun and five Korean officials were suspended indefinitely, and President Kim Chong-ha of the Korean Olympic Committee resigned, taking "full responsibility" for the ruckus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympic Shorts: They Shoulda Stood in Bed | 10/3/1988 | See Source »

Hair-raising, unpredictable, frighteningly volatile -- just about every scary term imaginable was being used last week to describe the outlandish behavior of the stock market. Friday was the day to beat all days, the wildest and woolliest in the market's history. First the Dow Jones average of 30 industrial stocks zoomed up 64 points in the space of five hours of trading, to a high of 2210. Then, just as suddenly, the Dow nose-dived, swinging down an amazing 115 points in 71 minutes. At times there literally were no buyers on the trading floor of the New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Crazy Stock Market | 2/2/1987 | See Source »

...Life and Times of Little Richard (identified in a subtitle as "the Quasar of Rock," should further amplification be required) chronicles, in no uncertain terms and in effulgent detail, both bouts with Satan and business with the Lord. The book (Harmony; $15.95) is the woolliest, funniest, funkiest rock memoir ever. It rambles from Richard's childhood in Macon to his current calling as a preacher for the Universal Remnant Church of God in California, with plenty of rest stops along the way, so that even the casual reader may catch a whiff of brimstone before, in the sermon that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Dancing in the Outer Darkness | 9/10/1984 | See Source »

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