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In 1983 she staged a grueling series of hearings on public education in all 75 Arkansas counties. She spent long evenings drinking stale coffee in overheated cafeterias while participants trooped to the microphone to offer their views and occasional insults (she was once called "lower than a snake's belly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hillary Clinton: A Room at the Top | 2/8/1993 | See Source »

Two themes stand out in this lumpy but fast-reading unauthorized biography, which gets the record straight yet seems to miss the inner man. (Shawcross, a British writer perhaps best known for his savaging of Henry Kissinger's Cambodia policy in Sideshow, managed to interview his subject. Murdoch read the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Banality Of Power | 1/18/1993 | See Source »

First Figgie describes a week from hell in 1995. He focuses on the plight of the fictional Betsy and Tom Roth, God-fearing, hard-working folks with two kids and a couple of grandparents to feed, who suddenly find themselves belly up. Among the things that happen to Betsy and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Leaning on The Panic Button | 12/28/1992 | See Source »

Suddenly, computers that had whirred quietly for years started making the strangest sounds. Some began to moo like a cow every hour on the hour. Others greeted each new program with the sound of breaking glass. Still others spent their spare moments doing celebrity impersonations: Ed McMahon belly laughing, Ronald...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Booms, Boings and Wisecracks | 12/14/1992 | See Source »

Harvard security guard Peter D. Skillman, who was patrolling the Yard after the incident yesterday, estimated that a gallon of blue latex paint had been poured over the statue, covering it "from head to belly."

Author: By Emily J. Tsai, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: John Harvard Gets New Coat | 11/21/1992 | See Source »

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