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...case proceeds, the main Clinton defense strategy is to depict Jones as a gold digger in the service of people out to destroy the Clinton presidency. "This is about money and book contracts, and radio and television appearances," Bennett says. It probably helps his case that a covey of Clinton haters have been the biggest promoters of the Jones story. Jones first made her charges during a February press conference at a meeting of the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, to which she was brought by Cliff Jackson, a Little Rock lawyer and full-time Enemy of Bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jones Vs. the President | 5/16/1994 | See Source »

...number of readers look askance at some of the words used to depict Wall Street's new gunslinger, the quantitative analyst ((COVER STORIES, April 11)). Sam Kirzner of Edison, New Jersey, writes, "Supernerds, high-water-pants alert, idiots savants -- these descriptions sound like sour grapes from people who can't understand the tools of today's market." Randall E. Sekeres of Atlanta believes we aimed "for the cheap laugh." Chris Danielson of Houston wonders, "How can you endorse the use of the word nerd? Granted, the , supernerds may be engaging in unusual business practices, but that is no reason...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Defense of Quants | 5/2/1994 | See Source »

...Governor (1982-86), Robb frequently spent weekends at Virginia Beach without his wife Lynda. He has since been haunted by tales of cocaine-scented parties attended by young women with few inhibitions. When Robb's Senate aides investigated the charges, they recorded their findings in private memorandums. The papers depict the Governor as having oral sex "with at least half a dozen women 20 to 25 years his junior at random times." His assistants also obtained information indicating that Robb had associated with "people who were heavy drug users and served federal prison sentences on . . . drug-related charges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A State of Instability $ | 4/18/1994 | See Source »

...music, became freighted with contentiousness. Soon Steve Martin was introducing politically correct comedy to the smoking debate. "Mind if I smoke?" he imagined someone asking him, then replied, "No. Mind if I fart?" In the '80s, even James Bond felt bad about smoking. Today the habit is excoriated -- antitobacconists depict Joe Camel as a schoolyard drug pusher -- and publicly survives only as a vestige of James Dean rebelliousness. Denis Leary's very funny pro-smoking rants are essentially ironic; taken seriously, they would come across as nostalgia for a life misspent. In the recent film Reality Bites, the one hint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's All the Fuming About? | 4/18/1994 | See Source »

During yesterday's testimony, Kontos askedquestions designed to depict the city councilloras a poor Cambridge boy who made good...

Author: By Terry H. Lanson, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: City Councillor Cross-Examined | 3/18/1994 | See Source »

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