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BAGHDAD: At least the war of words is becoming more imaginative: Back during the standoff last month, Madeleine Albright called Saddam Hussein a ?congenital liar,? and Tariq Aziz fired back: ?It is she who is the liar.? Now, if nothing else, the two sides are becoming more loquacious: President Clinton called Saddam ?maddeningly stupid? Monday, while Iraqi newspapers retorted Wednesday that Clinton was an ?ugly adolescent? who has turned the White House into ?a nightclub where he plays the music himself on the flute and guitar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iraq War of Words Drags On | 12/18/1997 | See Source »

Since the Gulf War, Taha, a British-trained biologist, has made a career of thwarting U.N. officials at every turn. She is, says one of them, "a consummate liar." First she claimed that her program had been strictly defensive, and then that all Iraq's biological agents had been destroyed. When inspectors uncovered caches of germ agents, she blandly claimed that only a few small quantities had survived. "Iraq has said that it destroyed stockpiles of biological weapons after the war," says Pentagon spokesman Kenneth Bacon. "We have absolutely no confirmation that that has happened. We assume that they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERM WARFARE | 12/1/1997 | See Source »

Safire remarked jokingly that he did not really call First Lady Hillary Clinton a "congenital liar," as Kalb had alleged, but a "congenial lawyer...

Author: By Jacqueline A. Newmyer, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Safire Discusses Journalism History | 11/7/1997 | See Source »

...Polanski and George Hamilton. Barbieri, who says her support of Simpson during the criminal trial led to the loss of all her money, her career and her apartment (although she reportedly got $3 million for the book, which should ease the sting a touch), now claims O.J. was a liar--especially about other women--but that she still loves him. In another new book, I'm Not Dancing Anymore, O.J.'s niece Terri Baker expresses her own doubts about O.J.'s innocence. She also writes that he wasn't such a great uncle either...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 22, 1997 | 9/22/1997 | See Source »

WHAT'S NEXT--ADS ON YOUR FINGERNAILS? Next week the Fruit Label Co. will paste ads for the video of Liar Liar on 6 million apples in Los Angeles and New York City. A Lost World ad is due Nov. 3. Tasty? No. Annoying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Sep. 22, 1997 | 9/22/1997 | See Source »

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