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...couple convene and what did the Leader of the Free World do with his pants and did they do it on the floor or use a desk or a sofa and was it one of those hard formal sofas not meant to be reclined on and did someone knock on the door during the proceedings and did she smoke a cigarette afterward and were snacks served--these all can be provided by a good novelist. But this is not about government. There is not an impeachable offense here. You can't even see impeachment from here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can We Get On to Something Serious? | 8/31/1998 | See Source »

...Dempseys separated, and rumors spread that Kelly was having financial problems. She wore dark sunglasses and started mowing her own lawn. For a single woman, she was also dumping a lot of trash, including a good number of beer cans. And then there were the men who would knock on neighbors' doors by mistake at odd hours, asking about massages. A young woman who rented the mansion's carriage house said last week that she suspected something rotten "from the second day I lived here," and that not all the chaps who mistakenly came to her door looking for afternoon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best Little Whorehouse In Jersey | 8/24/1998 | See Source »

Anyone who saw The English Patient knows that return trips aren't always easy in the desert, and Augustin soon discovers that he has no more idea how to return to Jean-Michel then he does how to find the lost regiment. His heat-stroked, knock-kneed peregrinations around the desert land him into new trouble, especially when he steals water from a Bedouin maiden. The resultant man-hunt sends Augustin hiding in a deep crevasse in a large, barren plateau, but no sooner has he escaped their swords than he runs into a whole new set of daggers, this...

Author: By Nicholas K. Davis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Desert Passion Meditates on Man and Beast | 7/2/1998 | See Source »

Students who want bigger rooms usually cross their fingers and hope the housing gods are kind. Deans can knock down walls and expand into the room next door...

Author: By Gregory S. Krauss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dean Cuts Into Weld Common Room | 6/26/1998 | See Source »

...knock down the basketball straw man first. If someone plays defense like Bill Russell, passes like Isiah Thomas, scores like Julius Erving and rises to the occasion like Larry Bird, it's hard to argue against him. The clincher comes in the context of his team. When Jordan's around, the Bulls win championships. When he's off flailing at minor-league curve balls, they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Athletes: Who's The Greatest Of All? | 6/22/1998 | See Source »

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