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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Coelho is under investigation for alleged corruption as head of the American mission at the 1998 World Exposition in Portugal. (That made him refuse to go on TV to spin for Gore, something a good campaign boss must do.) Coelho also dispensed some lousy tactical advice, encouraging Gore to insert himself into the Elian Gonzalez imbroglio, a move widely ridiculed as the worst sort of pandering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign 2000: Restarting All Over | 6/26/2000 | See Source »

...line of U.N. peacekeepers between the guerrillas and the Israeli border. But the instantaneous collapse of the South Lebanon Army has rendered that impossible, even in the unlikely event that the U.N. force, whose role in Lebanon has never been more than that of spectators, had been willing to insert itself between two armies who have reached no peace agreement. That leaves Israel's northernmost population centers vulnerable to a hostile enemy a stone's throw away - which is why thousands of Israeli civilians scurried southward rather than spend their nights in the bomb shelters of towns such as Qiryat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Lebanon Retreat May Force Israel-Syria Talks | 5/24/2000 | See Source »

...They are what we look for--a name, a place, an allusion, an object, a brand of deodorant, the titles of six poems in a row, even an occasional date. This, son, makes for interesting (if effortless) reading, and this is what gets A's. Underline them, capitalize them, insert them in the top, "Illustrate;" "Be specific;" etc.? They mean it. The illustrations, of course, need not be singularly relevant; but they must be there. If Vague Generalities are anathema, sparkling chips of concrete scattered throughout your bluebook will have you up for sainthood. Or at least Dean's List...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: BEATING THE SYSTEM | 5/17/2000 | See Source »

...Appropriately, a main target of the RCP of the USA is youth. An insert the Revolutionary Worker describes the RCP’s new “Party Programme.” The Party Programme declares that “youth…are crucial forces for a successful revolution and key successors to the revolutionary cause of the international proletariat...

Author: By K. S. Weaver, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Barnes & Noble: Red Section | 4/27/2000 | See Source »

...genius, has been tied to tracts of neural real estate. Using fMRI, a new scanning technique that measures blood flow, scientists can tell whether the owner of the brain is imagining a face or a place. They can knock out a gene and prevent a mouse from learning, or insert extra copies and make it learn better. They can see the shrunken wrinkles that let a murderer kill without conscience, and the overgrown folds that let an Einstein deduce the secrets of the universe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will The Mind Figure Out How The Brain Works? | 4/10/2000 | See Source »

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