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...Yorker's Washington luncheon to celebrate its women's issue was more like a midday slumber party--a quite nice one, actually--than a power gathering. We might not have gone so squishy if Hillary Clinton had shown up. As it was, the highest-ranking woman may have been Sally Quinn, Clinton's oft-quoted critic in the New Yorker article on the First Lady. Emcee Charlayne Hunter-Gault, who encouraged women to rise and bear witness to their troubles, broke the spell of sisterhood when she pointedly called on Quinn to explain why women participate in the trashing...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Dressed in black, Hillary Clinton marched into a Washington courtroom at midday Friday to face questions about her role in Whitewater. "I'm going to tell them everything I know, with the hope of helping them with their investigation," the First Lady told the mass of reporters gathered outside. Four grueling hours later, she reappeared to say that she had told the jury everything she knew and was now going home. For the Clintons, burned in the past by suspicions they weren't telling the whole truth about Whitewater, TIME's J.F.O. McAllister says the best strategy...
...fire was 60 percent contained by midday and officials hoped to have it fully contained tomorrow. Wind gusts of 40 mph that drove the flames carlier had died down...
...genial and bespectacled, Forbes looks like an owl surprised at midday. But he feels his strength is as the strength of ten, for his ideas are pure: supply-side Republicanism, from the dawn of the Reagan era. Forbes believes the nation's major problems can be solved simply, with a flat tax allowing few deductions and a stable monetary system tethered to the price of gold. The present tax code, he says, is "a source of political pollution. If you don't clear it out, the weeds will grow back again." And if a new tax system throws revenue projections...
...weeks ago I had a midday meal in a local Italian restaurant. By the end of the meal, I had to excuse myself to go to the restroom, and asked the server where I might find one. She pointed up a flight of stairs to the main dining room...