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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...human attribute.) Moreover, humankind cannot bear "nothing but the truth." Meursault in Camus's The Stranger is incapable of lying and is executed for it. Prince Mishkin in Dostoevsky's The Idiot is a man of perfect honesty who brings disaster to everyone he meets. And in Liar, Liar, Jim Carrey, who has played a few idiots in his time, is even more insufferable as a truth teller than as an inveterate b.s. artist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lies My Presidents Told Me | 8/31/1998 | See Source »

...friends and asks him what was behind it. "I'm a clown. I'm a comedian," Rock says. "Do you want me to be Dick Gregory?" Yvette Russell of Essence joins in, saying the pictures pained the average black person. Rock is not joking anymore. "It's sad that Jim Carrey can do things I'll never be able to do because of people like you," he says. "Part of me is never going to come out because of people's closed minds." Guess those preshow nerves can get to anyone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 31, 1998 | 8/31/1998 | See Source »

Enough about Bill and Monica. A matchmaker's dream is Ken (Starr) and Linda (Tripp). They deserve each other. JIM BOLIN Shreveport...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 31, 1998 | 8/31/1998 | See Source »

...DIED. JIM MURRAY, 78, irrepressible Los Angeles Times sports columnist whose witty dispatches made him a most valuable player on the sports beat; of cardiac arrest; in Los Angeles. Murray spent 37 years at the Times giving sports junkies a morning fix of his laugh-a-line musings. One of four sports writers to score a Pulitzer Prize for commentary, Murray greeted his award with characteristic humor: "This is going to make it a little easier on the guy who writes my obit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Aug. 31, 1998 | 8/31/1998 | See Source »

...culpas. Another public act of contrition is unlikely -- suggestions to that effect from top aides were shot down -- but Clinton does wish he'd been on the ball first time around. "The President admitted to us that the timing of his speech was probably not the best," Rep. Jim McGovern, one of those on the must-call list, told NBC's "Meet the Press." "He wished he had more time to reflect and get his emotions together before he addressed the American people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton on the Line | 8/31/1998 | See Source »

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