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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...time a reporter gets on you because you haven’t answered a legal mate section, you're never going to get rid of them," he said. "It's like having a flea...

Author: By Steven E. Stryer, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Donaldson Defends Media Coverage of Clinton Affair | 3/8/1999 | See Source »

There is in fact a respectable evolutionary rationale for such "irrational" female choices. Women may want loyal, provider-type mates to help them raise their children. But if their sons are, in turn, to be attractive to other women--and hence keep the lineage thriving--it might help if Dad is a heartbreaker himself. Unfortunately, though, physical attractiveness is not a reliable guide to reproductive "fitness," as in health and wealth. Consider the peacock. Its gorgeous tail renders it highly vulnerable to predators, so any peahen with a concern for her sons' longevity should opt for a more modestly endowed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Real Truth About The Female Body | 3/8/1999 | See Source »

Storey brought the puck up from the Crimson zone, looking to capitalize on the first power play of the period. He dished off to junior line-mate Matt Scorsune, who sent a slap shot from the point flying past Underhill, putting Harvard up 2-1 at 2:44 into the second...

Author: By Jennifer L. Sullivan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: M. Hockey Escapes Lynah, Still Alive in ECAC | 2/22/1999 | See Source »

Then her husband decided to have an affair. Hillary, as she has throughout their marriage, stood stoically by her philandering mate. She went on TV to talk about vast conspiracies. When she could no longer deny the obvious, she went on TV to grimace somberly. Now, she is a hero. Now, she is being hailed as a political force in her own right. She should really just go back to Arkansas...

Author: By Noah Oppenheim, | Title: Hillary, Go Back to Arkansas | 2/19/1999 | See Source »

...wouldn't (although he has two years left, so I'd put no money on it). But Monica might. You don't have sex, or a reasonable facsimile of it, with a man who has his own standing army in order to relieve existential loneliness or find a soul mate. You do it for the record books, the thrill of it all. It's like the dog who walked on its hind legs: it's not that it's done well, but that it's done at all. Sex in the study next to the Oval Office while the most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Monica Lewinsky, We Hardly Knew You | 2/15/1999 | See Source »

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