Word: bitted
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...parents who despair of ever seeing an honor-roll mention, there is this bit of consolation from Arnold's valedictorian study. Conventionally good students tend to wind up as conventional successes. "I hate to use the word conformists," says Arnold of her high achievers, "but they were aware of and willing to deal with the rules of the system." Bill Gates was not a conventionally good student. Neither was Thomas Edison nor Ernest Hemingway nor most of the world's truly creative brains. But don't kid yourself either. It just isn't true that Einstein flunked out of math...
Young fans will no doubt swoon, but some parents, like Ted Fishman of Chicago, are a bit alarmed by the merchandising mania. His 10-year-old daughter Elly has already circled half the inventory in the latest catalog for her holiday wish list. "These dolls are supposed to represent wholesomeness and frugality," he notes wryly. But slave girl Addy's ironstone compote set ($50) "costs more than a real set would." In that way, at least, these dolls are thoroughly modern...
Every so often, before Election Day or a moon landing or the crowning of someone as the new King, we know in advance when history will be made, and so we set the table, bring out the good silver, choose our words a bit more carefully, because the moment is one for the record. It was in honor of that prospect that the tourists lined up in the rain outside the Capitol last Thursday morning, to win a place in the gallery where they could watch the House take up the issue that it has entertained only twice before...
...takes someone a little bit nutty and a little bit slutty, as David Brock once put it, to assemble such a combustible mixture. Lionized in the acclaimed movie The People vs. Larry Flynt, the smut publisher came across as a crusader for principle (he went to jail to uphold the First Amendment) with a self-deprecating candor (he doesn't pretend that men buy his magazine to read the profiles). But Hustler's taste for barnyard animals and meat grinders in close proximity to unairbrushed women is so gross that Gloria Steinem and Jerry Falwell found themselves on the same...
Last week the circumstantial evidence became a bit more suggestive. In his report to Congress, Starr insists he first learned about the relationship between Clinton and Lewinsky when Tripp contacted his office on Jan. 12. The story Tripp told that day--and especially the parts about Vernon Jordan's job search for Lewinsky, with its hints that Clinton was trying to buy her silence--became the basis for Starr's successful request that Attorney General Janet Reno allow him to investigate the Lewinsky matter. But according to an Oct. 4 article in the New York Times, word about the Clinton...