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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The President's speech was a disaster, a historic failure that will be ever noted and long remembered. It was, in fact, a reverse Checkers speech. The Checkers speech was a defiant and manipulative statement that saved a career. The Monica speech was a defiant and manipulative statement that will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Bill Clinton's Speech Will Live In Infamy | 8/31/1998 | See Source »

"This is a relief rally, and it won't last," he says. "Pretty soon, traders will look around and start to realize this scandal is going to get uglier before it gets better." And as the Clinton pundits' chatter dies back down, Kadlec says, the ongoing disaster in Russia -- adding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wall Street's Wishful Thinking | 8/18/1998 | See Source »

When word got out the following morning, the reaction was largely positive, particularly in Congress. Glenn will not be the first lawmaker to fly in space. Senator Jake Garn of Utah and Representative Bill Nelson of Florida both took shuttle rides in the giddy, all-aboard days before the Challenger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: John Glenn: Back To The Future | 8/17/1998 | See Source »

In a time of little people consumed with little matters, here is a giant who is also a man. After the Challenger disaster, the fissures in the space program began to show, and when the people at NASA started to put the program back together, they shifted its appeal from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: John Glenn: A Realm Where Age Doesn't Count | 8/17/1998 | See Source »

A white flag fluttered in my mind. Just in time, too. I ran up the driveway to greet my mother. This situation was a disaster. There was to be no future for Manly Man and me. Ah, well. Maybe Harvard men aren't so dull after all.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POSTCARD FROM NEW ROCHELLE | 8/14/1998 | See Source »

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