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...state or federal laws. Only when a reporter crafted a surgically worded question asking if he had ever broken the laws of another country did Clinton finally acknowledge trying pot "a time or two" while a graduate student in England more than 20 years ago. He added that he hadn't enjoyed it and "didn't inhale it" -- touching off skeptical guffaws from baby boomers across the land...
...fact, there were widespread rumors in 1989 that the only reason why the military hadn't pulled a coup yet was that they could not deal with the sliding economy...
...doubtful that Clinton would have blundered into such a feminist minefield if the charges hadn't struck the hypersensitive spot inside women who try to make it in a man's world. Many of them still feel that somehow they haven't made it on their own or will be dismissed if they step over some invisible line of appropriate female conduct. This is particularly touchy in politics, which remains a bastion of prefeminist expectations, even though more and more politicians' wives have professional careers. The little wife is still a Norman Rockwell staple of American campaigns. George Bush...
...they hadn't left I would have Ad-Boarded them," he said, referring to the Law School's Administrative Board, which handles disciplinary cases...
...found that many of the rescuers had a history of doing good deeds before the war -- some visiting people in the hospital, others collecting books for poor students, still others taking care of stray animals. "They just got into the habit of doing good," she says. "If they hadn't perceived that pattern as natural, they might have been paralyzed into inaction." At the same time, most of them never planned to be rescuers. They found themselves responding to a need first and the danger second. Many shared a sense of universalism. "They saw the Jews not as Jews...