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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...from WOR's Bob Grant, WABC's Sean Hannity and Steve Malzberg. And in this weird election week, when pundits were as befuddled as that guy on the next barstool, the talk on Right Radio had the fervid certitude of true believers. George W. Bush is the voice of pure reason; Al Gore, says a caller to Grant's show, is the latest tyrant in a "pure dictatorship." ("We're on the same wavelength," Bizarro Bob replies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio Free-Fire Zone | 11/10/2000 | See Source »

...down the middle between men and women. The men, mostly former convicts, expect the women to uphold a higher standard of morality, to "have souls." Too often, however, the women fail in the moment of trial. Vassilissa (Kimberly J. Ravener '03), Peppel's landlady and sometime mistress, is as pure an expression of bitchiness as recent memory offers. The one potential for action in the play comes when she tries to persuade Peppel to kill her husband. Nothing comes of it. That ambition is as abortive as any other. Adding to the cycle of destitution, Vassilissa and Peppel...

Author: By Richard C. Worf, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: From Russia with Love | 11/9/2000 | See Source »

...Well, if you think about it, that's a lot like our current presidential race. And of the two candidates, it's possible that I'm the one who is more boring and less exciting. But you know what? That's a lot better than being a force of pure, unmitigated evil...

Author: By Ben M. Wikler, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Final Campaign Ads | 11/6/2000 | See Source »

...Israelis and the Palestinians want to make it the capital of their state. I say Jerusalem should be left alone. It is a place in which to pay homage, not to formulate government policies. Making Jerusalem an administrative capital would only aggravate the situation. Jerusalem should be left pure, holy and free. PUANESVARAN SUBRAMANIAM Kuala Lumpur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 6, 2000 | 11/6/2000 | See Source »

...instance, one of the Gore/DNC campaign objectives has been to discredit Bush's Texas record, in much the same way that President Bush successfully trashed the Massachusetts Miracle that was Dukakis' intended trump card in 1988. The Gore campaign has achieved its task in pure terms - there is certainly an awareness that Texas isn't quite the Garden of Eden that Bush has been portraying. But at the same time they were also trying to convey the belief that Bush, as a one-and-half-term governor of a state where the chief executive has very little power, would therefore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This May Be a Pre-Mortem of the 2000 Campaign | 11/3/2000 | See Source »

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