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...wonder. No President has mentioned the American People as incessantly as President Clinton. (We talk about him an awful lot too.) He presents himself by turns as the American People's benefactor, slave and towel-snapping locker-room pal. In his rhetoric the American People, for their part, serve alternately as a goad, an inspiration, a shaming device and, of course, an excuse. "I need to go back to work for the American People," he notoriously said on Jan. 26, and then refused to discuss the Lewinsky scandal for almost seven months. Too busy. The American People's work really...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Speaking for the American People... | 10/19/1998 | See Source »

James R. Reynolds '23, the University benefactor largely responsible for the building of Quincy House, Mather House and the Loeb Drama Center, died on Friday at his farm in Wenham, Mass...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reynolds Dead at 97 | 9/22/1998 | See Source »

...newspaper in protest. This prompted M.S.U. president MIKE MALONE to invoke the new campus antitobacco rule and cancel the event, sending national organizers off to look for a tobacco-friendly site, perhaps Oklahoma City or Las Vegas. One man's vice lord, of course, can be a cowboy's benefactor--U.S. Tobacco provides significant scholarship money to college cowboy and cowgirl athletes. Meanwhile, football season has been enthusiastically greeted by Malone, despite the beery atmosphere that tends to accompany the games...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tobacco Wars | 9/21/1998 | See Source »

...anonymous benefactor provided Radcliffe with the means to offer the Radcliffe 21st Century Challenge Fund, which matches "general purpose" donations above $25,000 from both men and women...

Author: By Andrew K. Mandel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Matching Funds Boost Harvard, Radcliffe Drives | 5/18/1998 | See Source »

...time when Hubbell was being investigated. In the deposition Burton will focus on payments to Hubbell by figures in the 1996 campaign-finance scandal, such as the Riadys of Indonesia, whose $100,000 payment to the former Associate Attorney General was previously disclosed. Whatever Hubbell spills about another benefactor, VERNON JORDAN, could be of more interest. Jordan landed Hubbell $60,000 in consulting fees from Revlon, the same company he got to offer a job to Monica Lewinsky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Topic A: New Questions For Hubbell | 4/13/1998 | See Source »

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