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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...American people, and I'm sorry." But Clinton didn't know what to do with them. Maybe they would be enough to redeem him with those members who were prepared to vote to impeach him mainly because he had never seemed genuinely sorry for anything. But maybe they would kill him too. It's a trap, his lawyers warned. Admit that you lied, even once, and they will impeach you, then indict you, and then throw you in jail the first chance they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Impeachment: Special Report Impeachment | 12/21/1998 | See Source »

...California, have formal, recommended lists of supplemental reading (in addition to required textbooks) for districts to choose from, but most others leave the decisions solely up to local districts. In some places, novels have largely been shunned in favor of anthologies of excerpts or simply the "drill and kill" of paragraphs followed by questions, a method meant to prepare kids for the almighty state tests. Teachers who are able to wrangle money for literature are advised to choose from lists put out by the likes of the American Library Association or peruse review journals. But that means extra reading...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Johnny Can't Read | 12/21/1998 | See Source »

...spur discussions about social realities that may already be affecting the classroom or community. Yet where should the line be drawn? Debbi Grizzi, a Lincoln, Neb., mother, had to lift her jaw off the counter when she opened her 12-year-old's backpack and discovered A Need to Kill, a graphic account of a child killer who fantasizes and masturbates about murdering boys. "There has to be some check on what children are reading," she argues. Houston eighth-grade English teacher Susan Duhon agrees that teachers must be sensitive to the wishes of the community. "I am a team...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Johnny Can't Read | 12/21/1998 | See Source »

...kill the refs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Let's Go to the Tape | 12/21/1998 | See Source »

...Charged with giving an intermediary $75,000 to kill former business partner Stanley Stahl, a charge Hirschfeld denies

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 21, 1998 | 12/21/1998 | See Source »

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