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...gained valuable experience on the floor to add to his unparalleled raw physical ability," Micomonaco said. "And Bookman has one of the sharpest setting minds around. He's able to read defenses and deliver the right set at the right time...

Author: By Martin S. Bell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Young M. Volleyball Wins Ivy Title | 6/7/2001 | See Source »

...number of the preliminary bouts, shutting out Jiang's picks for top party positions. If he is to maintain an influence over his succession and China's future, he can't afford to be seen as caving in to any perceived U.S. aggression: The president faced some of his sharpest ever criticism for being too soft on the "hegemonists" after the Belgrade bombing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jiang Zemin | 4/5/2001 | See Source »

...carried away with cheap jokes at the President's expense. After all, he's never claimed to be the sharpest tool in the shed, and the Bush-Kim meeting is important not because of what it may reveal about troubles ahead for the U.S. president on the diplomatic stage, but for the fault line it reveals between the hawks and doves in his administration. Bush's response to Kim raised eyebrows all over Washington and beyond because Secretary of State Colin Powell appeared to be leaning in the opposite direction the previous day. Powell had implied that the Bush administration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Bush's Korea Gaffe Exposed Rifts Within His Administration | 3/12/2001 | See Source »

Everyone's well-played blandness and unquestioning acceptance of the game's rules are this film's sharpest satirical shaft. Of course Minahan is grateful that Survivor has come along, in effect, to validate an idea he's been nursing for five years. But he thinks the show is pretty small potatoes--nothing more than "mean-spirited office politics being played out on TV." Despite that send-up, Minahan, a onetime producer for the MTV tabloid show Buzz, is an avid viewer of reality TV. "It brings out the worst in everyone. It's exploitative, manipulative, it encourages narcissism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: True Visions of False Realities | 3/12/2001 | See Source »

...support of tax cuts was based on the notion of not paying down the national debt too fast - a possibility that nobody in Washington but Greenspan seems to take seriously. And Dodd also did his best to pin the Fed chairman down on what is fast emerging as Democrats' sharpest line of attack: "the trigger." If the surpluses don't pan out - and the way Schumer had it figured, the surpluses were already spent - shouldn't the tax cuts be able to be cut off, to save the balanced budget...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Greenspan Turns Into the Artful Dodger Over Tax-Cut Plan | 2/13/2001 | See Source »

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