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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...peanut people do that?"), $200,000 for sunflower studies in Fargo, N.D.--then thunders about $1 billion in military-construction projects the Pentagon never asked for. "This makes me angry," he says, his voice building, "and it should make you angry." When military dedication fuses with reformer's zeal, you know McCain has found his sweet spot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign 2000: McCain Hits The Sweet Spot | 11/15/1999 | See Source »

...sweet spot grow. He never misses a chance to demonstrate how his signature issue--"six- and seven-figure soft-money donations that buy access and influence"--prevents Congress from solving problems that affect people's lives. Bill Bradley makes a similar argument, but when McCain talks about it, his zeal becomes contagious--and his message begins to seem unified and encompassing. "I don't mean to sound like there is one root cause of all our problems," he told 200 voters in New Hampshire last week, "but there is a significant cause of all our problems." One presumes he meant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign 2000: McCain Hits The Sweet Spot | 11/15/1999 | See Source »

...zeal to promote Boston-themed plays, Altman thought he found an easy answer in the colorful Last Hurrah, the notorious parody of four-time Boston mayor James Michael Curley's last-ditch bid for re-election. What he got, however, was an unreasonably large and unmanageable cast of characters, many of whom are demoted to ornamental, cardboard cut-out status in the three-hour world of the theatre. There's Amos Force (Keith Perry), the conservative Yankee who will do whatever it takes to see the Irish mayor lose; Francis Jr. (John P. Arnold), the mayor's playboy, finger-snapping...

Author: By Matthew B. Sussman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Last Hurrah Wins No Cheers | 11/5/1999 | See Source »

...tears," says John Patrick Crecine, an academic turned entrepreneur and Jobs friend of long standing, "but it's not because he's meanspirited; it's because he's absolutely single minded, almost manic, in his pursuit of quality and excellence." Indeed, Jobs' most potent weapon is still his messianic zeal to fulfill his original vision of Apple as the bridge between the average citizen and the mysterious world of the computer. "His DNA was built into this company," says Heidi Roizen, a partner at the Softbank venture-capital firm who has known Jobs since the beginning. "And when he came...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Apple and Pixar: Steve's Two Jobs | 10/18/1999 | See Source »

...great fear of the ironist," writes Purdy, "is being caught out having staked a good part of his all on a false hope." In some sense, our earnestness for extracurricular achievement has sapped our zeal for academic and House life...

Author: By Richard S. Lee, | Title: The Veritas of Irony | 10/13/1999 | See Source »

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