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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Many students, desperate to abide by the ancient mantra "well-rested, well-tested," attempt to simultaneously absorb information and catch forty winks. The most advanced nappers have even mastered the art of taking notes while catching up on valuable REM shut-eye. However, not even the grand-masters can fight off the forces of snooze that pull the handwriting in a southeasternly direction towards the bottom of the page...

Author: By Bridie J. Clark, | Title: Getting Your Z | 2/19/1998 | See Source »

...President and his friend Jordan, who was suspected of trying to help Lewinsky get a job to keep her quiet. Starr was now refusing to do a deal before talking to her face to face: "There is no substitute," he said, "for looking a witness in the eye, asking detailed questions, matching the answers against verifiable facts and, if appropriate, giving a polygraph test...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Drip Drip Drip | 2/16/1998 | See Source »

...lower on the chain than Monica Lewinsky, and some sources say the intern targeted Currie as a way to get to Clinton. "She worked Betty hard," says a Clinton adviser, "to put herself in the eye of the President. She knew the President was in and out of [Betty's] suite." But no one seems to think Currie--with her religious core, her sensible attire and her hair pulled back in a no-nonsense chignon--would cover up for untoward behavior. "She's no Rose Mary Woods," says longtime friend Paul Costello. "Betty's very straight," says a co-worker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eyes On The Oval | 2/16/1998 | See Source »

...from here, a lighthouse rises over a channel where the bay opens to the Atlantic. It's not a house really; more like a tall steel skeleton with a cyclops eye circling at the top. It surveys the sea where, 300 years ago, brave English seamen came to this area searching for a port. Without lights on the shore, those sailors could not tell rocks and shallows from safe water. They had nothing to guide or protect them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Winter Lights | 2/16/1998 | See Source »

...fail to be stimulated by the this group of people we've assembled here, it would be like spitting in God's eye." Simpson said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Institute of Politics Begins Study Group Series | 2/13/1998 | See Source »

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