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...Democrat sneered the other day that George W. Bush's only accomplishment before the age of 40 was to quit drinking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Power of Presidential Transformation | 7/28/2000 | See Source »

...presidency retains a mystique of transformation. The office is still a variation on the American theme of new beginnings. It is an existential job. Americans might actually find it attractive if George W. Bush's only accomplishment by age 40 had been to quit drinking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Power of Presidential Transformation | 7/28/2000 | See Source »

...full years, with testimony from 157 witnesses. A skilled trial lawyer with a flair for the dramatic, he pulled at jurors' heartstrings by putting his ailing clients front and center. Mary Farnan, a nurse with lung and brain cancer, began smoking at age 11 and was unable to quit even during early rounds of chemotherapy. Frank Amodeo, a 60-year-old Orlando clockmaker with throat cancer, is unable to swallow food. Rosenblatt had hoped to put Angie Della Vecchia on the stand during the damages phase. She died before she could testify, but Rosenblatt made sure the jury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Smoked! | 7/24/2000 | See Source »

...Europe, where gas prices are higher than in the U.S. [NATION, July 3], people deal with the situation by driving cars that are more fuel efficient. If people in America don't want to pay so much for gas, then they should quit buying gas-guzzling sport-utility vehicles and stop polluting the air. ADAM LEVINE Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 24, 2000 | 7/24/2000 | See Source »

...campaign against some of the other oligarchs - politically powerful billionaires who, like Berezovsky, accumulated their fortunes by questionable means in the Wild West early years of Russian capitalism - and his efforts to centralize power in the Kremlin have gotten Berezovsky so worried that he's announced his intention to quit parliament and launch a rival political party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Putin's Pet Oligarch Is Stirring the Pot | 7/18/2000 | See Source »

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