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...ladies, who for a while thought they might have been counting annual club dues as investment gains (they weren't), evidently were making incorrect entries into their computer. Nobody double-checked the math. Poof! There goes their mystique, and possibly the lucrative cottage industry they had developed. Their first book, which mixed down-home recipes for the likes of Kentucky cream cake with investment tips, had that Warren Buffett-like 23.4% emblazoned across the cover. It sold 800,000 copies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jail the Beardstown Ladies! | 3/30/1998 | See Source »

...play game-within-the-game in which Sales was allowed an uncontested basket to let her break the record, and Villanova was allowed a reciprocal freebie. (In an ironic twist, ESPN Magazine reported yesterday that a mistake in the record-keeping of an earlier game led to an incorrect point total for Sales, and she has not technically broken the record...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Little Proverb, Lots To Say | 3/12/1998 | See Source »

TIME regrets having printed incorrect figures on discrimination complaints to the EEOC for last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sounding Off, Talking Back | 3/9/1998 | See Source »

...prosecution-minded, it promised hard DNA evidence. And for those hoping to see the powerful humbled, it introduced a pulse-racing new phrase: presidential semen. "Monica's Love Dress," as the New York Post dubbed it, fast became a staple of water-cooler talk and late-night comedy. Politically Incorrect's Bill Maher said a survey of newspaper readers found it "the news story they least want explained by a pie chart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press And The Dress | 2/16/1998 | See Source »

...interesting to read about the controversy over bilingual education in the U.S. In Canada it is politically incorrect to denounce official bilingualism. But providing a bilingual society has a high price. Precious tax dollars go to providing separate schools, court services and the publication of print articles in both official languages, French and English. The unofficial result has been a polarization of the country. Politicians in their quest for power play one language group against the other. In Canada, with about 30 million people, bilingualism costs the taxpayers more than $350 million a year. It could cost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 16, 1998 | 2/16/1998 | See Source »

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