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What wasn't presaged by even the most knowing, most inside, most keen-nosed Olympics hound was that, more than three years before any torch lighting, the head of the Salt Lake Organizing Committee--a fine Mormon he was--would be brought down by a spousal-abuse charge, and his successor and others would fall in a huge, still widening bribery scandal. Salt Lake City wanted to hot up its image for the Olympics, and today it has no worries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How The Olympics Were Bought | 1/25/1999 | See Source »

...four decades, torched it with his wily intelligence, seduced it with the precision of his plummy voice. He has dwelt inside Hamlet, Romeo, Coriolanus, Richard II and Richard III (in his version, a purring, reptilian gangster), caressed the mood of wistful doom in Chekhov, played Captain Hook and Inspector Hound and, in Bent, a gay man in a Nazi camp. But except for Richard III, which he brilliantly reimagined for film, all these great performances disappeared into the playgoer's memory on closing night. You had to be there; most of you weren...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Sir Ian McKellen: Ready for His Closeup | 11/2/1998 | See Source »

Anyone with children may easily say yes. Yet clearly, nothing Clinton did sinks to the depths of what Nixon did, such as using the IRS to hound opponents and dispatching the CIA to thwart an FBI investigation. The claim that Clinton abused the counsel's office by invoking privilege claims is "nonsense," said White House counsel Charles Ruff, a respected former Watergate prosecutor and U.S. Attorney. "He did so on my advice. I went to the President and said the independent counsel is seeking to intrude into the legitimate, confidential discussions you have with your lawyers and that your senior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Just A Sex Cover-Up?: High Crimes? Or Just A Sex Cover-Up? | 9/21/1998 | See Source »

...time he got to college, Avni continued to do some acting, but also began to write and direct. After working as a director for Calling it Rape and The Real Inspector Hound, Avni says that directing is one of the aspects of theater that holds a particular appeal...

Author: By Flora Tartakovsky, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ron Avni Looks in Many Different Directions | 6/4/1998 | See Source »

MADONNA Says selling pix of her kid was a big mistake. Like it's her first. One day a publicity hound, the next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Mar. 9, 1998 | 3/9/1998 | See Source »

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