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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...urged before that those fans who haven't got this album do so with utmost speed. Like no other compilation, its 48 tracks, ranging from the mid-'50s to the early '60s, show the development of the Possum from a derivative honky-tonker to the world's best country singer. It's being purveyed by your nearest Internet dealer, though without the booklet described above, which was only included in a "Limited Collector's Edition," since sold out. It'll still be worth your while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: George's Gems | 12/22/2000 | See Source »

...literature as in life, a fine line often separates the ambitious from the merely pretentious. In her dazzling debut novel, The Last Samurai (Talk Miramax Books/Hyperion; 530 pages; $24.95), Helen DeWitt walks this line with the utmost confidence. Describing the book, however--a work that covers decades, spans oceans, has sections in Japanese, Greek and Old Norse, and touches on chess strategy and Laplace transformations, whatever they are--may be tricky, so hang on tight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Burdens Of Genius | 12/4/2000 | See Source »

...court is certainty aware of the historic nature of this session," said Chief Justice Charles T. Wells. "And is aware that this is a matter of utmost and vital importance to our nation our state and our world...

Author: By Christina S. N. lewis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Florida Supreme Court Hears Both Sides in Election Case | 11/21/2000 | See Source »

...wanted to treat Columbia and Army with the utmost respect," Oren said. "We didn't know what to expect, so we went into the meet acting as if we were going to lose so that we would put an all-out effort into every event...

Author: By Susan M. Brunka, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: M. Swimming Sweeps Columbia, Army | 11/20/2000 | See Source »

...difference between the major candidates. Well, I'm capable of making fine visual distinctions. But a lot of people who probably never wandered near the Nader camp kept muttering, "Bush, Gore? Gush, Bore?" right up to election eve. This was, after all, the year the parties did their utmost to resemble one another. Recall that in August, after a Republican Convention full of "compassion" and black gospel choirs, the pundits gave Bush high marks for making the Republican Party look more like the Democratic Party. But how hard was that? He wouldn't have been able to make the Republicans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election 2000: Don't Blame Me | 11/20/2000 | See Source »

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