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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...them. This from a nation brought up on Parson Weems' smarmy fable about young George Washington's perfect truthfulness. Honesty has been a casualty in the eyes of Americans ever since. Today, Bok notes, the public sees a politician's clever dodge as no different from a big fat lie. We're defining deception downward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lies My Presidents Told Me | 8/31/1998 | See Source »

...January 1995 because, Johnson says, "he spent more time hunting and fishing than he did with his family." Johnson herself is no shrinking violet: she was convicted in 1994 of a very Southern civil infraction called "curse and abuse." She apparently had called a school official a "fat b___" and run at the woman's car. Conley and Johnson often wrangled over his $75 a week child-support payment for Callie--so much so that Melissa says she told her brother to use a money order for each payment, so he would have a record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where Do They Belong? | 8/17/1998 | See Source »

...shows isn't so hot. MAGIC JOHNSON, whose famous friends and sweet nature couldn't make up for his dread of the camera, has been axed after nine weeks. He was good about it but still not funny. "You know what they say, it's not over until the fat lady sings," he said on Thursday night's show. "Well, she's gonna have to sing tonight..." With that, a woman began to sing. Never mind, Magic, there's always...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 17, 1998 | 8/17/1998 | See Source »

Joel Stein wrote that baseball is "a game full of the fat and unfit." Granted, baseball players are not conditioned to run up and down a basketball court or soccer field, but I would like Stein to go to a baseball game and calculate the percentage of players who are "fat and unfit." It is probably about the same as the percentage of people in the U.S. who have a Mohawk haircut--not counting the Berkeley area. EDDIE FORD Berkeley, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 17, 1998 | 8/17/1998 | See Source »

...most common side effects--acne and mood swings--are also hallmarks of normal adolescence. Most young women take steroids not to develop bulky muscles but rather to increase their strength and endurance, which are harder to spot. Look for a subtle but rapid change as the normal curves of fat that define the female form melt away. Longtime steroid users may lose their breasts entirely. Watch too for torn connective tissues. Steroids often cause muscles to outgrow and injure the tendons and ligaments that attach them to the bone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Girls on Steroids | 8/10/1998 | See Source »

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