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Dates: during 1990-1999
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First, though, Lipinski had to survive the short program, a 2-min. 40-sec. contest in which one misstep, one deviation from the eight required elements can mean instant elimination. Nicole Bobek, 20, was out in under a minute: she hit the ice during her first triple Lutz and never recovered, taking with her the talk of a red-white-and-blue sweep. The world offered up its best--Russian siren Maria Butyrskaya, China's comeback kid Chen Lu and French wonder woman Surya Bonaly--but one competitor, Elena Sokolova, voiced what everyone knew: "It's really between Tara...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Figure Skating: Back On Top | 3/2/1998 | See Source »

...There's kind of an instant bond with smoking," she says. "It makes for a comfortable atmosphere...

Author: By Rachel K. Sobel, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Smoking at Harvard | 2/24/1998 | See Source »

...stand for election every two years in the House, so as soon as you arrive, there is instant pressure to hone in on the economic and political interests of your district," Glickman said. "That's what landed me on the House Agricultural Committee, where I lived wheat and cattle policy for years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Glickman Compares Congress, Cabinet | 2/12/1998 | See Source »

Then came the call to be special prosecutor, and with it instant charges that Starr was too partisan for the job. He was chosen to replace a more moderate Republican, Robert Fiske, following an unusual luncheon attended by Judge David Sentelle, the head of the three-judge panel that named Starr, and conservative Republican Senators Jesse Helms and Lauch Faircloth, one of Fiske's loudest critics. Sentelle and Helms have denied discussing Starr's appointment. By that time Starr had nearly entered the Virginia Republican Senate primary that Oliver North eventually won, and had considered writing a Supreme Court brief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside Starr and His Operation | 2/9/1998 | See Source »

...very few people where after the first 15 minutes you would remember her... She's very outgoing. Very extravagant." Once, she says, Lewinsky went to the birthday party of a woman she had never met before, arriving with a huge bouquet of balloons as a gift. There were always instant familiarity and intimacy. Says the acquaintance: "It wasn't so much that she'd be personal in a one-on-one conversation but with a group of five people she had never met before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Trouble with Monica Lewinsky | 2/9/1998 | See Source »

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