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...team could question other women--so the ruling could not have triggered his meeting earlier that day to help Monica find a job. And Ruff offered the first of the week's rhetorical body blows. The former Watergate prosecutor, hunched in his wheelchair, took his case to the same battleground on which Henry Hyde had planted his flag the week before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Last Campaign | 2/1/1999 | See Source »

...five-ton trucks and two dozen 14-ton assault vehicles, and then engaging in pitched battle -- albeit simulated -- on the grounds didn't jibe with the Presidio's more family-oriented mandate as a national park. Undaunted, the best and bravest are training their sights on another choice battleground -- San Francisco International Airport. Check in two hours in advance, fellas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Presidio Military Exercise Falls to Friendly Fire | 1/11/1999 | See Source »

Meanwhile, on the one battleground that matters--the federal courthouse--Microsoft is still doing dismally. Take its central assertion that Internet Explorer is not a separate application, but an integral part of the Windows operating system. A government expert pointed out last week that Microsoft Press's computer dictionary defines a Web browser (like Explorer) as an application...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bill Gates' Nemesis | 12/21/1998 | See Source »

Forget the Asian crisis -- the greatest threat to Chile's stability is the arrest of its former dictator. Britain's detention of General Augusto Pinochet pending a Spanish extradition request has turned Santiago's prosperous streets into a battleground, and there was more bad news for the general on Wednesday: British legislators backed attempts to charge Pinochet in London should Spain's extradition request fail. That's a big headache for Chile's president, Eduardo Frei. "Roughly half the population is pro-Pinochet, with the other half fiercely opposed," says TIME Latin America bureau chief Tim Padgett. While few deny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chile on the Boil | 10/21/1998 | See Source »

...members to stay cool, but congressional aides were quick to acknowledge that their bosses were appalled by the President's behavior. Members were worried that they would be guilty by association--a chain the G.O.P. was beginning to forge in some ad campaigns in key districts. The widely cited Battleground poll released last week showed that Clinton's personal problems have elevated "moral and religious issues" to the top of the voters' agenda. They tie with crime and drugs as the No. 1 problem facing the nation. The poll also showed that scandal is discouraging traditional Democratic voters from voting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: We, The Jury | 9/21/1998 | See Source »

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