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...line in the sand on Kuwait. Bill Clinton draws the line closer to home. The President, capitalizing on his new reputation as the Arkansas strongman, took a tough stand against an old challenger from The New York Times, columnist William Safire. In his column last Tuesday, Safire had the gall to call the First Lady a "congenital liar" for her obsfucation about "Travelgate," her wildly successful commodities career and some obscure beachfront property in Arkansas...

Author: By Steven A. Engel, | Title: AND IN THIS CORNER... | 1/12/1996 | See Source »

DIED. DOUGLAS ("Wrong Way") CORRIGAN, 88, aviator; in Orange, California. The high-flying Corrigan broke no records for air speed or distance but set a new standard for sheer gall. In July 1938 federal officials in New York examined Corrigan's aircraft and, deciding it owed more to Rube Goldberg than Orville Wright, refused to approve his planned transatlantic flight. Corrigan agreed to return to California--but once in the air, headed east. Touching down in Ireland 28 hours later, Corrigan, straight-faced but twinkle-eyed, attributed his detour to a faulty compass. This combination of chutzpah and heroism propelled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Dec. 25, 1995 | 12/25/1995 | See Source »

...authority of the administration, I do not mean to imply that the administration is infallible. They allow University Health Services to fund abortions, for example. Conservatives have criticized the administration for subsidizing murder. But conservatives have never gone as far as their liberal classmates. They have never had the gall to challenge the very structure of the decision-making process in a university community...

Author: By David B. Lat, | Title: Students Should Shut Up | 12/12/1995 | See Source »

...Ivies going into Saturday's battle; Princeton was 4-0. Harvard was the underdog team, surviving a four-game stretch without scoring a goal but always believing that it had talent. Princeton was Princeton, the defending Ivy League champs, the team that has the gall to win the league title despite letting one of its best players, Amy MacFarlane, take the year off to play in the field hockey world...

Author: By Eric F. Brown, | Title: Saturday Affirmation | 10/23/1995 | See Source »

...cops still police our streets? Will the coroner's office still go about its work so sloppily? It's as if we have a problem that these two Americas both know exists--one endures it, the other condones it, nothing gets done on it and now people have the gall to ask what impact this is going to have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DRAWING LINES AND LESSONS | 10/9/1995 | See Source »

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