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...commentariat, Turley and the other upstart impeachment specialists may now come tumbling down, casualties of the scandal's end. Not just pundits but also entire cable-news networks would seem to need new identities. Yet the three networks that lashed themselves tightest to the mast of this story--CNN, MSNBC and Fox News Channel--won't let it go gently. "It's been a very good 12 months for us," says Erik Sorenson, vice president and general manager of MSNBC, perhaps the most Monicamaniacal of all. Sorenson says the network has "already started drifting away" from its all-Monica lineup...
When Captain Ahab, in his relentless pursuit of Moby Dick, had a doubloon nailed to the mast of the Pequod, each member of his crew saw reflected in it a different meaning. So too was it with the findings that Starr nailed to our consciousness this year, and so too was it with Starr himself and Clinton himself. Decades hence, we will still be debating the meaning of the great Clinton-Starr struggle and picking at the lingering wounds. But I hope this issue of TIME can further the process of putting both the personal qualities of these...
...teeth of the Depression as a mighty symbol of rebirth, the 102-floor building got off to a wobbly start financially. Built by General Motors executive John Raskob, the building reigned for 42 years as the world's tallest. Its Art Deco crown, intended as a mooring mast for blimps, served as a handy perch in King Kong. A few skyscrapers have since soared higher, but none has surpassed its limestone majesty...
...brokerage houses, a falling market for expensive cigars and Ferraris--yet there goes the Bellagio, sailing into the teeth of the gathering global gale, with 3,000 of the highest-priced rooms in Vegas and something like $300 million worth of works of art nailed to its mast. All bought, over a little more than two years, by Stephen A. Wynn, 56, who had never collected anything except casino real estate and golf courses before--and who is, moreover, gradually losing his sight to retinitis pigmentosa, an irreversible, degenerative eye disease...
...utilize to make independent films, as well as the artistic and creative freedom that you usually have, more of is more challenging and interesting. But not all the time--a lot of the time you set out with good intentions in independent film-making, and your mast snaps, you know, and a whale pokes a hole in the side of your hull, and [there are] only two life boats and 500 people. I choose to stand on the highest point of the mast and hope for the best...