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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Still, Koocher admits that McGovern needs a"minor miracle" to win the Democratic nomination...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Primary '98 | 9/14/1998 | See Source »

Early on in the speech, Clinton said, "I am solely and completely responsible" for his relationship with Lewinsky. Yet he accepted responsibility only for his "part in all of this," as if he were a minor player in a serious drama beyond his control...

Author: By Susannah B. Tobin, | Title: It's Really About Time | 9/11/1998 | See Source »

...Kendall may be a brilliant attorney and a fierce negotiator, but he is no student of history. Stonewalling does not work. Kendall has allowed Clinton to back himself into a corner. The right advice is to come clean. Kendall has helped turn an incident that was equivalent to a minor Watergate burglary into a reason for impeachment. STEPHEN W. OSHINSKY Monte Sereno, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 24, 1998 | 8/24/1998 | See Source »

...fake snow and a lively political debate going on between two babushkas. These sprightly women, however, quickly turn into the mindlessly smiling grandmothers they are supposed to be as soon as Vassily Vorovilich Smokov (Jim Augustine '01) and Serge Esmereldovich Upgobkin (Paul Siemens '98) enter the scene. These minor female characters' highly-charged dialogue is hysterical by itself, but the combination of ironic political statements and the bizarreness of the situation is pure comic genius. Translation: even if you don't know a Bolshevik from a Menshevik, you'll still laugh...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Slav-er-iffic! | 8/14/1998 | See Source »

...days because the space agency couldn't pay its electricity bills. The entire Mir program, in fact, is in debt to the tune of $600 million. But for Baturin, whose earthbound job involved figuring out how to pay wages to the starving Russian military, that's a relatively minor cash-flow problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: The Final Arrears | 8/13/1998 | See Source »

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