Word: heard
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...which he has enlisted lawyers, pollsters, policy advisers, Democratic lawmakers and celebrities. It doesn't matter that he will be long retired before the promises he lofted hit the ground; his poll numbers are his legacy. Even inside the White House, some heard an elegy Tuesday night. "It's like the speech you give when you know you're not getting anything passed, when you have no agenda," says an adviser. "So why not keep talking about the things you care about...
...thought you'd heard the last of Ken Starr, now that the impeachment operatic drama has moved to the Senate? Think again. Starr's cameo appearance to get Monica Lewinsky to sing on behalf of House prosecutors was the first hint that he's not yet through with the show. Tuesday Starr obtained a federal court's permission to pursue presidential friend Webster Hubbell on tax evasion charges in connection with Whitewater. Add to Starr's program a contempt case against ex-Whitewater partner Susan McDougal and an obstruction of justice case against Julie Steele for having allegedly lied...
...attuned to the absurdities of modern life as anyone, the British playwright Tom Stoppard nevertheless cannot believe something he has heard about Shakespeare in Love. "Is it true that in America you can't see this film if you're 15?" he asks, his understanding of an R rating only slightly off. "That glimpse of nipple, and we lose 10 million viewers...
Most women and even many physicians overestimate a woman's risk of developing breast cancer, says Dr. Barbara Weber, professor of medicine and genetics at the University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center in Philadelphia. For example, everyone has heard that 1 in 9 women develop breast cancer. "That doesn't mean you have a 1 in 9 chance of getting sick tomorrow," she notes. It means that over a lifetime of 85 years, 1 out of 9 women will develop breast cancer. But two-thirds of breast-cancer patients die of something else. In fact, heart disease...
...Republican Senator from Oregon, is worried that a government engineered more than two centuries ago risks irrelevance in the Internet age. He and Democrat Ron Wyden held a series of bipartisan town meetings earlier this month, thinking they might be a good antidote to the bickering. But what Smith heard from voters surprised him. "I expected to be deluged with questions about the scandal," Smith said. "But it was the opposite. I got questions about everything but this...