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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Core Curriculum is the single worst aspect of the Harvard education. The Faculty--judging by the reforms it voted on last spring--does not understand why the Core is inadequate for Harvard undergraduates, and the Core remains a mess, a bureaucratic beast that is dying too slowly. The Core is a multi-faceted and therefore extremely complicated problem: the Faculty Council tried and failed to solve it, and I do not have a neat solution, either. But the Faculty, particularly those members who helped create the Core in the 1970s, must realize the detrimental effects the Core has on Harvard...

Author: By Daniel M. Suleiman, | Title: The Chore | 2/2/1998 | See Source »

Should President Clinton ever face impeachment proceedings over the Lewinsky mess, it's a fair bet that the meaning of oral arguments will never be the same. A joke? Not at all. A legitimate possibility. For there is growing evidence to suggest that the issue of whether oral sex is actually sex, though it sounds like a question from a cheesy adult party game, may eventually form the basis of Clinton's legal defense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton's Crisis: When Sex Is Not Really Having Sex | 2/2/1998 | See Source »

...with President Clinton on the night of Vincent Foster's suicide, the day of Commerce Secretary Ron Brown's fatal plane crash, and the night consultant Dick Morris was thrown overboard at the 1996 Democratic National Convention because of a sex scandal. He knows how to clean up a mess. "The last thing he'd ever do is betray a friendship," Clinton once told the New York Times. "It's good to have a friend like that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton's Crisis: The Master Fixer in a Fix | 2/2/1998 | See Source »

There are countless other issues entwined in this mess of presidential proportions. Kenneth Starr might be praised in some circles for his role in uncovering the scandal. He shouldn't be. He extended the purview of his office far beyond Whitewater into the realm of a witch hunt. The Republicans, unusually quiet on this issue, may seem untainted by comparison with this disaster. Don't forget that their Speaker of the House prevaricated to the Ethics Committee about his shady book deals and that they have allowed their lobbyists to stand on the edge of the House floor, writing...

Author: By Susannah B. Tobin, | Title: Say It Ain't So, Mr. President | 1/29/1998 | See Source »

Bulls for Gore (Money Daily) President Gore? That's one of the possible outcomes of the Lewinsky mess. And according to analysts, that wouldn't be the worst thing for the markets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Front Page | 1/27/1998 | See Source »

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