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...ridiculous for TIME to feature such a meaningless person as Woods and hail him as a hero simply because he had the nerve to change his swing in one of the most pointless and boring "sports"--hitting a ball with a metal stick. So what if he is good at what he does and gets paid millions? His contribution to mankind is still zero. RALPH GALLAY Plainsboro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 4, 2000 | 9/4/2000 | See Source »

...these aristocrats, money is meaningless. Their time is much more valuable. They give what they can afford to expend. The true philanthropist is the little guy who gives to another little guy--not for the tax write-off, but because it is the human thing to do. DENISE DENOVA Palm Harbor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 14, 2000 | 8/14/2000 | See Source »

...scientist, he is definitely talking miracles. Many national polls had Mr. Buchanan pulling less than 2 percent of the popular vote and Mr. Hagelin less than 1 percent, and the popular impression of this week's madness as a meaningless two-ring carnival is unlikely to lend the two comabatants any additional credibility. (In one of the festivities' few moments of self-awareness, Reform elder statesman Russell Verney described the big picture thusly with mordant humor: "It's a close one, all right. John Hagelin is within one point of Pat Buchanan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Reform Party's Two-Ring Circus Leaves Town | 8/13/2000 | See Source »

Bush speaks of "our calling as stewards of the earth" and believes "prosperity is meaningless without a healthy environment." He boasts that Texas is No. 1 in the U.S. in reducing toxic pollution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Republican Convention: Do They Mean What They Say? | 8/7/2000 | See Source »

...forbade my friend from coming down to visit my place because they feared crime. When I lived in Georgetown last summer, she was welcome to visit as much as she wanted. That a knife attack occurred on my old Georgetown block the week before I dined with them was meaningless. Further, there had been no reported crimes in my Southeast neighborhood, Eastern Market. Since then, there have been two high-profile murders in Georgetown and virtually no crime in my neighborhood...

Author: By Todd E. Plants, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Where Yuppies Fear to Tread | 7/28/2000 | See Source »

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