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Americans don't necessarily think adultery and perjury are perfectly O.K. What they may think--what they certainly know, from personal experience--is that life is complicated and people often make a mess of it. It's complicated and messy in ways the language of politics can't describe or even acknowledge. They may think Hillary doesn't love him, or they may think all men have their brains in their crotch, or they may think Monica made it too easy, or they may have no theory at all. But while Washington boils the narrative down to issues--adultery, lies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Outrage That Wasn't | 12/28/1998 | See Source »

...says Renee Cicero, local representative for the Air Transport Union. Cicero claims her hands have been tied because no one is filing formal complaints. Then the question will be what to do with the people who are still sick and out of work. "That," says Cicero, "will be another mess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Place Makes Me Sick | 12/21/1998 | See Source »

...year TIME veteran, tells us that the warmth actor Tom Hanks often projects on the screen has a genuine source. "He's incredibly charming and very intelligent," she says. "He's able to shift effortlessly from Jerry Lewis imitations to why the D-day invasion was such a mess." Booth and Los Angeles correspondent Jeffrey Ressner, a regular on the Hollywood star patrol who met with the actor on the set of his new film The Green Mile, say Hanks is polite even while firmly refusing to answer questions about his family. "He wants his private life to be private...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Our Readers: Dec. 21, 1998 | 12/21/1998 | See Source »

...Kenneth Starr's--has changed the dynamic at Janet Reno's Justice Department. Officials there tell TIME that her reluctance to call for counsels to look into Vice President Al Gore, former deputy chief of staff Harold Ickes and the President in connection with the campaign-finance mess comes in part from seeing what other prosecutors have done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Was This A Bad Idea? | 12/14/1998 | See Source »

...Pinochet mess may prompt the Clinton Administration to take another look at the soon-to-be-born international criminal court. Washington refused to sign on last summer out of fears that overzealous prosecutors might launch frivolous or malicious war-crimes cases against American troops abroad, or even decision makers at home. Now, if courts around the world begin to step in as Garzon has done, the U.S. could decide that a well-designed tribunal with established procedures would be better than worrying about that midnight knock on the door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pinochet Problem | 12/14/1998 | See Source »

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