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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...grounds, but mostly because they think it costs them political clout and federal money. Democrats have no problem with using a little science if it bumps up accuracy by accounting for people the census workers couldn't find - again, mostly heavily Democratic minorities in big cities who don't answer when the government comes knocking at their door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Will Bush Come to This Census? | 12/29/2000 | See Source »

...with Albania, and prompt new conflicts throughout the region. But recent attacks on NATO forces by Albanian nationalists seeking to colonize a tiny strip of ethnic-Albanian inhabited Serb territory just across the border from Kosovo are a sign that some Albanians won't be taking no for an answer, and may be hoping to provoke a showdown with Belgrade before the Bush Administration carries out its threat to withdraw U.S. forces from the region. The new government of President Vojislav Kostunica is prepared to restrain the Yugoslav army as long as NATO remains prepared to do curb the guerrillas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For Urgent Attention: President Bush | 12/28/2000 | See Source »

...inflation risk. (By his own job description, Greenspan's main obsession is fighting inflation.) But Greenspan is fully aware that this business cycle, even in its current flattened form, is closer to the trough than the apex, and that's largely his doing. Tax cuts may not be the answer to the slowdown, but they probably wouldn't hurt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Selling of the Tax Cut: First Stop Greenspan | 12/27/2000 | See Source »

SIGNS OF THE TIMES Select the correct answer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The 2000 TIME Current Events Quiz | 12/25/2000 | See Source »

...admire bravery above almost every other characteristic. Bravery is a very glamorous virtue, but I'm talking bravery in all sorts of places. It was brave of Harry to answer back to the Dursleys [his aunt and uncle]; they had all the cards, and he was standing up for himself even then. That's why I love him so much. He's a fighter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Harry Is an Old Soul | 12/25/2000 | See Source »

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