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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...scarcity of American government professors means critical areas in the study of politics have no one to cover them...

Author: By James Y. Stern, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: American Govt. Program Struggles | 2/25/1999 | See Source »

...exactly PT-109. When J.F.K. was gearing up for his 1960 presidential run, the Kennedys spread the story of his bravery in the Pacific, not his conquests in Georgetown. But that was when smart candidates wanted charisma. Now they want cover, which, oddly enough, requires them to make pre-emptive strikes on themselves. In the aftermath of the White House scandal, it's a good bet that "youthful indiscretions" will get you more press than anything you say about school vouchers. Will voters care? If the past year teaches anything, it's that, up to a point still undefined, they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Rules of The Road | 2/22/1999 | See Source »

...sick of seeing President Clinton on the cover of TIME. Isn't there anyone else more deserving? JANET STEPHENS Ottawa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 22, 1999 | 2/22/1999 | See Source »

ACQUITTED. WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON, 52, of perjury and obstruction-of-justice charges; by the U.S. Senate; in Washington (see cover story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Feb. 22, 1999 | 2/22/1999 | See Source »

...Reagan High's coolest coeds dies swallowing a candy jawbreaker. To cover up this gaffe, bitch-on-heels Courtney (Rose McGowan, below, right) tries turning a geekette who knows about the death (Judy Evans Greer) into a fox goddess. A teen twist on the old Frankenstein-Pygmalion plot is as familiar as last week, when it was called She's All That. (And a decade ago, it was the evil-teen classic Heathers.) Writer-director Stein flirts with black humor but, alas, never goes all the way. As for McGowan, she has the buxom wantoness and smartly cruel mouth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Jawbreaker | 2/22/1999 | See Source »

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