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...Clinton appointee, Summers is likely to be hunting for a job again in 18 months, and some analysts say that since he is serving under a lame duck president for such a brief period, he may have a difficult time implementing an ambitious agenda...

Author: By Rachel P. Kovner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: New Treasury Chief Has Harvard Ties | 7/9/1999 | See Source »

...than a third of white households are online, while among minorities that portion drops to one fifth. Results like that were catnip for Bill Clinton on Thursday as he wound up his four-day visit with the nation?s economic have-nots ? "We have to close that gap," the lame-duck President proclaimed ? and unlimited access to the Internet is sure to be one of Al Gore?s favorite themes in the months ahead. Hey, the school-wiring veep might even be able convince some newcomers he invented the whole thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Info Superhighway Still Mostly for White Drivers | 7/9/1999 | See Source »

...leader of Britain's Monster Raving Loony Party and the country's longest-serving party leader; of suicide by hanging; in London. Though he was never elected, the former rock-'n'-roll singer irritated scores of somber candidates by running in some 40 political races--often in gold lame. His slogan? "Vote for insanity. You know it makes sense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Jun. 28, 1999 | 6/28/1999 | See Source »

...been two decades since Network, and Hollywood still can't get over the venality and dim-wittedness of the TV business, despite the increasingly lame fall schedules it turns out every year. Never mind, because this satirical hour-long series about the shenanigans at a major network, LGT, is worth watching. There's even a beautiful, frighteningly ambitious development exec who would have got Faye Dunaway fired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beggars And Choosers | 6/28/1999 | See Source »

...grandkids and friends and entertainers and power seekers from all over the world. Wherever the Bushes congregated, they were rarely in family huddles; but when you watched, they seemed always to be connected--with a gesture, a glance, a joke from the podium, the President laughing at whatever lame jest one of the kids made, Barbara surveying everybody's manners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dad Says, I Don't Miss Politics | 6/21/1999 | See Source »

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