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...friend, a consummate professional, is also, like most writers, a touchy and irrational animal. Writers howl, run in circles, and bite editors on the calf. Bill Clinton, though brilliantly seductive as a communicator, comes as an amateur to the business of memoir-writing. How difficult will Clinton be to handle? I don't know. And who will be handling whom? Gottlieb is smart enough to refrain from writing in the margin, "INSERT SEXUAL NITTY-GRITTY HERE." Gottlieb's problem will be to get the boy from Hope to be honest in more important ways...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hard Job of Writing Bill Clinton's Memoirs | 8/13/2001 | See Source »

...Winners DENISE RICH Refutes rumors of trading sex for her ex-husband's presidential pardon, becoming perhaps the first woman to deny bedding Clinton PHOENIX Two-week-old British calf found alive amid the foot-and-mouth slaughter sets off a nationwide flood of sympathy?and is spared DENNIS TITO The 60-year-old California financier gets the all clear for his $20 million space tour; denies he's going for the frequent-flier miles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Starting Time | 5/7/2001 | See Source »

...gets me really pumped about the Marathon, assuaging my fears about Heartbreak Hill and telling me how great it is to have the spectators rooting for you all along the way. I’m raring to go—all of me, that is, except my left calf, which had been bothering me since the day before, is still really tight...

Author: By Edward B. Colby, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Chasing a Dream: Running Boston as a Bandit | 4/24/2001 | See Source »

...long last, and to many cheers, the other 6,000 bandits and I cross the starter’s line. The first several miles are wonderful. I’m warm, completely energized by the crowd and the bluegrass music. My calf has loosened up, and I’m running ahead of my pace. (My theoretical goal was to run a four-hour marathon...

Author: By Edward B. Colby, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Chasing a Dream: Running Boston as a Bandit | 4/24/2001 | See Source »

...Jewel, 18, plies the streets in front of Splash, Lollipop and Confetti's, where drunken men amble with a girl in one hand and a San Miguel beer in the other. She's never met her American father, but her mother says he had a scar on his left calf. So every time Jewel meets a middle-aged American, she checks his leg, just in case. "I don't know what I will say if I meet him," she says, pulling the hem of her pink leather skirt down her thighs. "But I think I will say: 'Hello...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Forgotten Angels | 4/23/2001 | See Source »

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