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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that it had hired Starr to be dean of its law and public-policy schools starting in August. That surprise cheered the White House and infuriated Republicans, many of whom had hoped Starr could slowly undo the Clintons' grip on power with a string of indictments in the Whitewater affair later this year. Starr insisted that the investigation would go on without him, but well-placed sources noted that without the cooperation of Hubbell, Hillary's former law partner in Little Rock, and of Whitewater partner Susan McDougal, Starr had been stymied. In other words, it was unlikely he would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JOHNNY COME OFTEN | 3/3/1997 | See Source »

...fiction," notes TIME's Martha Duffy. But Kathryn Harrison has already drawn on the theme of adult incest in her 1991 novel, Thicker than Water, to no great reverberance, so in The Kiss (Random House; 207 pages; $20) she tries the currently fashionable route of confession. Hers: an affair with her father. Harrison?s preacher father was kicked out of the house by her mother and grandparents when she was tiny, and she had almost no contact with him until she was 20. When her father re-enters her life, and they become mutually obsessed. The actual affair does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Weekend Entertainment Guide | 3/1/1997 | See Source »

...fiction," notes TIME's Martha Duffy. But Kathryn Harrison has already drawn on the theme of adult incest in her 1991 novel, Thicker than Water, to no great reverberance, so in The Kiss (Random House; 207 pages; $20) she tries the currently fashionable route of confession. Hers: an affair with her father. Harrison?s preacher father was kicked out of the house by her mother and grandparents when she was tiny, and she had almost no contact with him until she was 20. When her father re-enters her life, and they become mutually obsessed. The actual affair does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Weekend Entertainment Guide | 2/28/1997 | See Source »

During the normal school year, children who are part of the house's afterschool program usually arrive at the house at 2:30 p.m. and stay until 5:30, doing their homework, hanging out and eating snacks. Vacation time turns the afterschool program into a daylong affair that begins at 8:30 a.m. and lasts until 5:30 p.m. During this time, the house assumes full responsibility for feeding the students, serving three meals...

Author: By Caroline T. Nguyen, | Title: A House For Area IV's Children | 2/26/1997 | See Source »

GENNIFER FLOWERS An affair to regret. She's the First Mistress of a new pay-as-you-go cybersex Website...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Feb. 17, 1997 | 2/17/1997 | See Source »

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