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...18th Winter Games were, in fact, apt for an Olympiad that some had been crowning the Attitude Games. As beach volleyball brought tank tops and bikinied dudes to the Summer Games in Atlanta, snowboarding, most conspicuously, looked to be smuggling a radical edge and Technicolor glint to the mild-mannered Winter Games. With the world-champion shredder refusing to show up, and even the Chinese athletes showing off their backflips in freestyle skiing, it could look as if the I.O.C. were a global subsidiary of MTV. (CBS even hired former MTV veejay Kennedy to do color commentary...
...slightly unbuckled atmosphere in which sex, if not exactly a certainty, is not exactly unthinkable. When he went to the White House in 1993 as one of the youngest American Presidents ever, Clinton attracted a flock of aides and interns just out of college: males who regarded mild flirtation as harmless fun, females who seemed to enjoy the attention. And whatever lessons he drew from the Gennifer Flowers embarrassment, Clinton has never felt it necessary to pretend that good-looking women are beyond his notice. Within the first months of his first term, the West Wing was crammed with them...
Willey still lives outside Richmond, Va., and has refused any comment to the press. Mild public interest in her case was easily overwhelmed last week by the uproar over Monica Lewinsky. But the first story has become an integral part of the second. Among the directives in the mysterious written "talking points" that Tripp says Lewinsky passed along to her is one that proposes, "You now find it completely plausible that [Willey] herself smeared her lipstick, untucked her blouse, etc." If Kenneth Starr is able to determine that this stage direction was an inducement to perjury on the President...
...Rating: [One Khomeini] You'd think the network that brought you the Gulf War could do better. Investigating is too mild a verb; it suggests a medical checkup. The gray border is monochromatic and nondescript, like something stamped on an official document or government-approved meat...
Previously the Faculty had closed down several newspapers that had dared to take a critical view of College policies. Ten years ago it might have banned the new publication outright, but now it held itself to a mild expression of outrage...