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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Only an idiot would think it will last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why the Housing Market Has Yet to Hit Rock Bottom | 2/5/2009 | See Source »

...fact seems to be emerging, that George W. Bush is an enigma. No one seems to really know how he ticked, who was in power and making decisions, and how much Bush himself understood about what was going on. Could his idiot façade have been a ploy? Sandy Britton, ATHENS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel's Way Forward | 1/28/2009 | See Source »

...hitters could certainly help to open doors. Names reported to be in the frame include Gorbachev and Tony Blair. His priority, Lebedev told a hastily convened press conference in Moscow, is to ensure the Standard's survival. "I don't want it to be said that some Russian idiot and former spy came along and bought it only for it to close down," he said. - with reporting by Yuri Zarakhovich / Moscow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From Soviet Agent to London Newspaper Proprietor | 1/23/2009 | See Source »

...Segway - riding it is the one thing at which he's an ace - smiling at Amy, shrugging off the rest of the world. Either Paul is conditioned by decades of being ignored or scorned, or he's attained a degree of secular satori. Or he's an idiot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mall Cop and Other Disreputable Pleasures | 1/20/2009 | See Source »

...believe what so many Hollywood films teach: that even the most ordinary schlubbs can rise to excellence. So this reviewer was happy to salute the recent films of two Hollywood types who previously, to put it politely, hadn't made masterpieces. This summer, Adam Sandler dispensed with his standard idiot character and his movies' gay-baiting infantilism to play a borderline adult in the rambunctious, satisfying You Don't Mess With the Zohan. Director Adam Shankman, who had slummed in Disney comedies about exasperated adults and the sassy kids in their care (The Pacifier, Cheaper by the Dozen 2), brought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bedtime Stories That Miss by a Mile | 12/23/2008 | See Source »

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