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Word: yip (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2000
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...last time an election here got so much attention was three years ago, when the race for Miami mayor was stolen with forged and phony absentee ballots. One belonged to a dead guy named Manuel Yip, who, it turned out, had been voting regularly from the afterlife. Further investigation revealed some 17,000 deceased persons on state voting rolls. (Note to Tim Russert: of the two presidential contenders, Bush stands to gain the most from a high Florida turnout of dead and fictitious voters, as they tend to be Republican...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letter from Florida: When the Going Gets Weird... | 11/20/2000 | See Source »

...electric skeletons. He twirls a water hose to subdue some villains, spins in the air to kick five guys at once, strips the belt off one oaf and hog-ties him with it, and goes spectacularly hand-to-hand with Asian-American lookers Russell Wong and Francoise Yip. In the battle with Yip, Li uses Aaliyah as a human nunchaku. "I rehearsed for that scene with Corey for a month," Aaliyah says, "but Jet and I didn't hook up until the day we shot. That's how dope he is; he doesn't even have to rehearse. He just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: No Cooling This Jet | 4/3/2000 | See Source »

...live on a farm in upstate New York, at 1,000 feet, in the foothills of the Berkshires. On the ridge above the house, coyotes yip and howl in the metaphysical cold, and the deer hunker down among the hemlocks. And the plumber, it turns out, is booked up through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Deep Freeze Leads to Deep Unease | 1/24/2000 | See Source »

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