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...didn't drink much himself, he was softspoken and silent; he got the other boys drunk and paid the bills, bought the fireworks to celebrate Cleveland's election, hired the brassbands, bought the creampies [sic] to throw at the actors from the box at the Old Howard, the cannon crackers to blow out the lamps of herdie cabs with, the champagne for the chorines [chorus girls]. He was rusticated [suspended] and finally fired from Harvard, so the story goes, for sending to each of a number of professors a chamber pot with the professor's portrait tastefully engraved...

Author: By Micaela K. Root, | Title: Why to drop out of school | 10/8/1998 | See Source »

...appeal to the horse sense of ordinary Americans, who know a lie when they see and hear one, no matter what David Kendall says. The supporting documents, meanwhile, will be aimed more at the groin. Much of material Starr left out of his report is, as Rep. Chris Cannon of Utah described it, "stuff that makes me blush, makes me sick to my stomach." Is America any keener to see it yet? Not according to a CNN/TIME poll released Friday, in which 67 percent said it was a bad idea to broadcast Clinton's video testimony. Considering the ugly mood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Congress: Let's Go to the Videotape | 9/18/1998 | See Source »

Sources: (1)Mike Barnicle. (2)William Shakespeare. (3)Jimmy Cannon. (4)W.E.B. DuBois. (5)Martin Luther King Jr. (6)Johnnie L. Cochran Jr. (7)Cicero. (8)Jesus. (9)Herman Melville. (10)Carole Bayer Sager and Burt Bacharach. (11)William Jefferson Clinton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Plagiarism and Race: I Was Just Thinking... | 8/24/1998 | See Source »

Dobson is now boosting former Representative Bob Dornan, the loudest, loosest cannon in all the right wing, who is running again for the California seat he has yet to concede he lost in 1996. If in conservative Nebraska the new family value seems to be tolerance, let's see if Newt goes to California to help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Facing A Dobson's Choice | 5/25/1998 | See Source »

...king and Wilma Cannon Fairbank Professor of Chinese Society James L. Watson, an Iowan born and an anthropologist by trade, is known for his lecture in Anthropology 105: "Food and Culture." He recently sat down to share his thoughts on McDonald'sTM, China and Seinfeld, and provide a little food for thought...

Author: By David J. Kressel, | Title: Eat, Drink, James, Watson | 4/2/1998 | See Source »

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