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After nearly a year of dodging a full-fledged news conference with the press -- you may remember a little political distraction called impeachment -- the President went before the White House press corps on Friday to address the issues of state. The President used the session to lay out the political groundwork for military intervention in Kosovo, to defend his human rights and security policies regarding China, and yes -- how could he avoid it -- to promote an image of marital peace (?We love each other very much and we?re working on it,? said the President). ?The event,? says TIME White...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The President Holds a Press Conference to Show He?s in Charge | 3/19/1999 | See Source »

...also claims to have seen one of us in a Harvard economics class that he is taking and sees this as some sort of bargaining chip in the deal. I promise him that if it weren't for my very jealous boyfriend, I'd be more than happy to lay a smooch on his inebriated friend, and my friends follow my lead. (Note to any available men reading this: I have neither a very jealous boyfriend nor any kind of boyfriend at all. My number's in the book.) The herd eventually migrates toward a group of more promising prospects...

Author: By Alicia A. Carrasquillo, | Title: FIRST? | 3/18/1999 | See Source »

...also claims to have seen one of us in a Harvard economics class that he is taking and sees this as some sort of bargaining chip in the deal. I promise him that if it weren't for my very jealous boyfriend, I'd be more than happy to lay a smooch on his inebriated friend, and my friends follow my lead. (Note to any available men reading this: I have neither a very jealous boyfriend nor any kind of boyfriend at all. My number's in the book.) The herd eventually migrates toward a group of more promising prospects...

Author: By Alicia A. Carrasquillo and Pamela S. Wasserstein, S | Title: Who's on First? Friday Night in Boston's Sketchiest | 3/18/1999 | See Source »

...Instead of storing past issues under a bed andzip disks in a drawer [and] running from dorm roomto Science Center to lay out a magazine, studentscould rely on such a Center to take cake of eachstep of the publication process," the reportreads...

Author: By David S. Stolzar, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Despite Clamor, Student Center Seems Pipe Dream | 3/17/1999 | See Source »

...bipartisan push for a national missile defense system will not lay to rest U.S. concerns over attacks by rogue states such as North Korea and Iran. "If I'm a bad guy, would I attack the U.S. with the only weapon that has a return address on it?" asks TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "Even if [the missile defense system] is perfect and it works, then the bad guy, if he's serious, will just come at you in another way. This only takes care of a small part of the problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Star Wars Revisited | 3/15/1999 | See Source »

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