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...embarrassing," said Moran on the morning after, his voice a subdued monotone. "It's like a novel that just became too full of juicy parts and bizarre, sleazy characters." Characters like Bill Clinton, the leader of Moran's party, the President he had followed loyally for six years? "I guess part of this is finding out that everyone is far more human than we'd like to believe," conceded the Congressman. "I guess there are no real heroes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The View From Congress | 8/31/1998 | See Source »

...Early in the 1992 presidential campaign, he says that "it was simply a fluke that I wasn't called" to serve in the Vietnam War. "I was just lucky, I guess," he shrugs. Clinton also says he "never received any unusual or favorable treatment" that helped him avoid the draft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lies, Tight Spots (and other near death experiences) | 8/31/1998 | See Source »

...pictures pained the average black person. Rock is not joking anymore. "It's sad that Jim Carrey can do things I'll never be able to do because of people like you," he says. "Part of me is never going to come out because of people's closed minds." Guess those preshow nerves can get to anyone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 31, 1998 | 8/31/1998 | See Source »

...pleased. He swaggered out and took a place in the audience, awaiting a few words of praise from the reverend. But Jackson only issued the terse acknowledgment that the "Democratic nominee for this state" was present, and asked Fieger to stand--without bothering to mention his name. "I guess he didn't want to try to pronounce Geoffrey," a deflated, sarcastic Fieger mumbled. "The name always catches people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Motown Motormouth | 8/17/1998 | See Source »

Sometimes evasions don't work, and when they fail, the President's memory fails too. Early in his first presidential campaign, he was asked how he had managed to avoid the draft. "I was just lucky, I guess," he replied (twinkle, twinkle). Only later, of course, did we discover that luck, as Mae West might have said, had nothing to do with it. As a candidate, he remembered almost none of the artful maneuvers and broken commitments that had allowed him to escape military service. "I'd been in public life a long time," he said, to explain his memory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Art of Presidential Prevarication | 8/10/1998 | See Source »

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