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This doesn't mean coming clean isn't the right thing to do--just that it isn't the panacea some make it out to be. Imagine if Clinton were to confess, reversing his finger-wagging denial and replacing it with a tortured definition of sex to help explain his earlier claims of innocence. Even if he said he did it to spare his family, the support he enjoys among a majority of Americans would sink like a stone. It's one thing to have an abstract notion that he actually had an affair and covered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Confession Game: Assuming It's The Truth, | 8/17/1998 | See Source »

Some families travel well. Not mine. When Zoe and Ella aren't behaving like Curly and Moe in the back seat--finger jabs, nose tweaks and attempted first-degree wedgies--baby Clementine is performing one of her eerie, hour-long imitations of the Emergency Broadcast System. That's why I decided to use the Web to help me navigate during my recent summer vacation. I figured that the more I knew about the route I'd be driving--how many miles to the destination, how far between rest stops, even how to get there in the first place--the better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Free Maps Online | 8/17/1998 | See Source »

...small fortune. Copper wires, pioneered by Alexander Graham Bell in 1876, were still state of the art. And Seidenberg was the guy you might have spotted crawling into manholes in New York City and cheerfully splicing phone lines together deep underground--peeling back the rubber coating on the finger-thick wires, laying the cable on the splicer and then gently pressing the copper wires together. He made a living wage; they called him a splicer's assistant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Scary Splice | 8/10/1998 | See Source »

...though, the White House won't drop its effort to improve ties with Iran. Sending friendly signals to President Khatami is even more important now--"to get Iran to stop developing a ballistic-missile program," a senior Clinton aide insists. Perhaps, but Khatami is not the one with his finger on the launch button...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Message In The Missile | 8/3/1998 | See Source »

...nearly so; Robbins was teamed with Robert Wise as codirectors. They hated each other (when the duo received the Best Director Oscar jointly that year, neither acknowledged the other in his speech), but the child was beautiful. Russ Tamblyn's a dervish, Natalie Wood's a dream, and that finger-snapping? Gang war -- or Shakespeare, for that matter -- doesn't get any prettier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Side Potato | 7/31/1998 | See Source »

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