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...State Dining Room, wrapped in a piped pink sweater, her lips covered in a thick red gloss, her forehead hidden behind a wall of bangs. The date was April 22, 1994, and Mrs. Clinton had convened her first official press conference to address growing concerns over the Whitewater Affair. Clinton skillfully deflected the reporters’ questions, using a breadth of details that reminded every viewer of her lawyerly past. But the next day’s headlines focused largely on the cosmetic details: the Barbie Doll top, the black skirt bottom, the flattened bangs, the warm lights that made...

Author: By Andrew D. Fine, | Title: A Woman’s Dilemma | 7/28/2006 | See Source »

...There is a lot of hypocrisy in all this", says Ech?varri. "It seems like the only problem here is that cycling is the scapegoat for a perfect [sports] world." But the Landis affair may redouble the call for reform, not just in cycling but in all of sports. "Let's focus on the young generations," says Echavarri. "Let's be tough, but educating. Punishing is easy, but let's analyze the roots of what's happening. Even though right now cycling doesn't have much moral power to demand anything, it's still worth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Landis Scandal Causes Dismay in Cycling | 7/28/2006 | See Source »

...carried on an affair with a teenager he met in a toy store B) He refused to stop singing Uptown Girl at karaoke night C) He flies into a jealous rage when her Total Gym infomercial with Chuck Norris comes on TV D) If 50 is the new 40, then Cook is more interested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 31, 2006 | 7/23/2006 | See Source »

...strange disappearance of Chandra Levy was the big mystery of the summer of 2001. The Washington intern, who had an affair with California Congressman Gary Condit, vanished that April, sparking a media frenzy that lasted for months. Five years later, her case is still open--and its impact lingers on its principals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Update: Jul. 31, 2006 | 7/23/2006 | See Source »

...Long Night, with Anthony Quinn as a non-Hammer hero with amnesia, is a drab affair, and My Gun Is Quick buried its chance at B-minus competence with another unknown, inapt Hammer, Robert Bray. You might say that Spillane should always have played him, as he does in the 1963 The Girl Hunters. (Richard Wright, of Native Son fame, is the only other best-selling novelist I know who played his own major character in a movie. Anyone know others?) But that would be to overrate Spillane's hulking amateurism. He has fun in the movie, but maneuvers only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Prince of Pulp | 7/22/2006 | See Source »

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