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...Today, like every day, a woman and her toddler girl board me at the stop just past The Plough and the Stars. Today, like every day, all of the other passengers smile and coo as the pair finds a seat. The woman is pretty--fine-featured and petite; the daughter she carries mirrors her. I'm rolling along, enjoying this joyful maternal scene as much as the passengers, when they hit me: the shoes. The little girl wears pink suede Mary Janes with the red, green, yellow and purple images of ALL FOUR Teletubbies emblazoned on the toe. No! Their...

Author: By Lisa J. Powell, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Diary of a Bus | 11/18/1999 | See Source »

...little boy" must have been humming Thank Heaven for Little Girls over his good fortune. Who else but a morally indifferent ingenue would coo over his feeling sorry for himself because a soldier had died in Bosnia and would let him use it as an excuse to violate his fidelity calendar: the record she said he kept of the days he didn't cheat on his wife, like an alcoholic crossing off days he stays off the sauce. One frightening claim in the book is that the President became "sexually aroused" by Monica's description of her own Bosnia visit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Story Within the Story | 3/15/1999 | See Source »

Accost annoyed upperclassman for key card swipe into building. Curse House master for outlawing universal keycard access, and crawl up five flights of stairs. Arrive at "party" of 10 Harvard men. Met with wide eyes. "Ooo. This is good," the so-called men coo...

Author: By Avra VAN Der zee, | Title: JUST A SQUIRREL TRYIN' TO GET A NUT | 11/5/1998 | See Source »

Tell me more, tell me more, coo assorted pundits breathlessly, in their Pink Lady Jackets. How does the media feel about the whole jolly she-bang? Repeated endlessly, these questions have become painfully boring, but it is easy to be horrified by some of the press's efforts for sensationalism. One angle particularly off the mark is the moralistic retelling of young intern cast as naive victim and lead astray into sin by bad older...

Author: By Sarah Jacoby, | Title: Monica's Wily Charms | 9/29/1998 | See Source »

...members who are on the board and who have publicly supported management. Kann's head is not the only one some want to see on a platter. Three weeks ago, the board met, without management, to discuss among other things the continued role of Kann appointee Kenneth Burenga as COO of Dow Jones and CEO of Dow Jones Markets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DOW JONES TAKES STOCK | 12/15/1997 | See Source »

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