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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wait is finally over. During a meeting with the United Federation of Teachers in Manhattan last Tuesday, First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton announced--to the shock of absolutely nobody--that she intends to run for the U.S. Senate. It's "time to get moving and get started," she said...
...Clinton, it was time to get moving and get started a long time ago. Unlike expected GOP opponent Rudolph W. Giuliani, who has an obligation to his elected position as New York City mayor, Clinton has been inexcusably camouflaging her possible Senate bid with her unofficial role as the First Lady. Especially since her candidacy was never really in doubt--Westchester Rep. Nita Lowey (D-N.Y.), the only other potential Democratic contender, dropped out months ago--the delay represents a lost chance for Clinton to appeal to voters still uneasy about the "carpetbagger" label. It doesn't help that...
State of mind after the Harvard-Yale game last week: the Crimson is beaten in the final two minutes, Yale's administration actually subsidizes the alcohol for campus parties, and its students get a whole week off for Thanksgiving break: it was not a happy time to be a member of that "excellent school in the Northeast...
Throughout the decades, fashion has been one of the gym's greatest attractions. Olivia Newton John started the fitness-look craze with her music video "Let's Get Physical" and the '80s flick "Flashdance" fed fuel to the fashion fire. While leg warmers and plastic pants rarely serve any functional purpose today, these antiquated workout staples have been replaced by a new type of Southern California gym couture--namely peroxide-tinted hair, G-string leotards and plastic breasts and pectoral muscles. I find the exponentially enlarged chests most fascinating about the gym, but amazingly enough, taut lycra seems...
...convoy of trucks carrying some 350 tons of oil intended for Nis and Pirot, two opposition-run towns in southern Serbia. The convoy was stopped as soon as it crossed the border from Macedonia, and the two mayors, who came to meet it, were not even allowed to get near the trucks...