Word: lines
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...helped shut down Republican discussions of whether to chop that tax relief into smaller pieces, pass it in increments and force the President's hand. Now that the Bush campaign has stumbled, lawmakers are far less certain of the Texas Governor's ability to carry everyone over the finish line with him in November--and far less fearful of the consequences of undercutting him. (And some people on the Hill are not too unhappy about sticking it to Bush after he practiced some Clinton-style triangulation himself, accusing congressional Republicans last September of balancing the budget "on the backs...
...managed to achieve. More than 6,000 candidates are vying for places in the 290-seat Majlis. In the 30-seat Tehran region, Reza Khatami is competing against an astonishing 869 rivals. Many Iranians had expected the Council of Guardians, which screens candidates and is controlled by hard-line mullahs, to manipulate the outcome ahead of time by keeping reform-minded candidates off the ballot. But the secretive council surprised everyone and waved most reform hopefuls onto the ballot. Why? Some believe Ayatullah Ali Khamenei, Khomeini's successor as Supreme Leader, feared a repeat of last summer's days...
Several writers played with the idea of what life online and off-line would look like. TIME contributor Robert Wright explains why we will never log off again, while FORTUNE columnist Stanley Bing does a hilarious send-up of what will happen to today's couch potatoes. (Hint: think mashed.) David Gelernter, professor of computer science at Yale, argues that despite the way our lives are being turned into data streams, we will have as much privacy as we need. Novelist Mark Leyner predicts, tongue slightly in cheek, that no longer will we have to go to sporting events...
...them away and get the map. It is also time for a semi-idyllic Beach Party to morph into Apocalypse Now. Richard descends, or rather soars, into savagery. This handsomely made film--as attentive to Nature's predatory beauty as any film since Terrence Malick's The Thin Red Line--goes a bit nuts, along with him. It sheds plausibility like a snakeskin, even as it accrues a needless cinematheque of references: to The Lord of the Flies, The Sheltering Sky, The Deer Hunter. It renounces the audience's complicities when it needs them most...
CANDIDATE: John McCain SIDEKICK: Fred Thompson, Senator, actor BLANDLY OBSEQUIOUS QUOTE: "He really is one of the few heroes I know." PREVIOUS SIDEKICK EXPERIENCE: Secondary roles in movies, among them The Hunt for Red October and In the Line of Fire WHAT'S IN IT FOR HIM: Cabinet position MODEL TV DUO: Bo and Luke Duke...