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...lift that restriction today, however, it would likely be years before the public actually got to see all of the documents from his presidency. (At the archives, Richard Nixon - whose papers have taken years to sort through and continue to yield bizarre troves of information - is known as "the gift that keeps on giving.") Thanks in part to the technology of the era in which he presided over the country, Clinton generated an unusually large volume of material: an estimated 20 million e-mails, averaging three pages each, plus another 78 million pages, enough to fill something like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Clinton Files and The X-Files | 11/13/2007 | See Source »

...surprising, then, that a corner the cemetery has been set aside for Maradona. Boca's most famous player has been awarded a plot free of the charge from the club, although he has made no public comment regarding the gift...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Season Ticket for the Cemetery | 11/13/2007 | See Source »

...When the violence does finally manage to bump the on-field highlights off the front page, a chorus of shock and outrage inevitably follows. But on and off the field, this is a country with a gift for creating dust storms that are bound to change nothing once the proverbial dust has settled. The last fatality was in February when a 38-year-old police officer, Filippo Raciti, was killed by a teenage fan in Catania during rioting at the stadium in the Sicilian city. After the death, there was much talk of applying the same techniques that the English...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Italian Soccer Fan's Death | 11/12/2007 | See Source »

...Every gift handmade by elves." That's the motto at the North Pole. Just about everyone but the Claus family security force is undersize. Midgets (mostly from Russia) man the assembly lines. The village's Security Force comprises three dwarfs who look like Munchkinland's Lollipop Guild, but tougher; they're the Blackwater of little people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Claus That Won't Fly | 11/11/2007 | See Source »

...second quarter: The second I say something, Baakel gains 10 yards and a first down. It's a gift, what...

Author: By Crimson Sports Staff | Title: LIVE BLOG: Harvard Football vs. Penn - 11/10/07 | 11/10/2007 | See Source »

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