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...decent opening, and I asked if he knew that the wife of a Bush Cabinet member had told some friends that the Republicans had "the goods" on Clinton's alleged womanizing but wouldn't pounce until the general election campaign. "Yep," said Clinton, who then detailed every other "bogus, smoking bimbo" allegation he's heard for over a decade. Clinton and his wife Hillary have already described their 16-year marriage as less than "perfect" (an admission of something), but the most interesting part of Clinton's analysis involved a political calculation. "I wish I could find...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Political Interest: The Self-Making of a Front Runner | 1/27/1992 | See Source »

Finally, there is a benefit for the registrar, TFs and professors: self-scheduled exams eliminate the bogus sick-out. Instead of walking into UHS with a cough, students would need to produce a disease that incapacitates them for two weeks. The 24-hour flu approach to postpone that Math 21a final until March just...

Author: By Thomas S. Hixson, | Title: Scheduling Our Hell | 1/17/1992 | See Source »

...arms dealers. But the Vietnam War gave rise to a dismal new enterprise: the MIA industry, which plays on the farfetched notion that there are dozens of American prisoners still being held captive in Southeast Asia or China or the former Soviet Union. The industry thrives on false leads, bogus photographs and unprovable allegations about the fate of the 2,273 U.S. servicemen still unaccounted for 17 years after the war ended. Its toxic by-products are the protracted pain of the relatives of the MIAs and continuing public confusion about the extremely remote possibility that there might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Mia Industry Bad Dream Factory | 1/13/1992 | See Source »

...flat. It is a blatant attempt to stir up anti-semitism. These monstrous lies are an insult to the memory of all those who were murdered in the camps--gays, Poles, gypsies and other social undesirables as well as Jews--but they are aimed at Jews. Behind the bogus footnotes lies a poorly disguised hatred...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Obligation to Publish Lies | 12/10/1991 | See Source »

...chanterelle and shiitake before they study the alphabet. Beer can come in a bottle with a champagne cork, and spaghetti automatically means fennel-raspberry pasta. To ask for a glass of ordinary tap water or regular coffee is to admit that you hail from Tulsa. Pretentious readings of bogus poetry have now been supplanted by SF Net, a coffeehouse computer linkup that enables pseudo avant-gardists to cross-chat electronically over their caffe e latte...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War Between the State | 11/18/1991 | See Source »

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