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...anyone who has flipped through Vogue or Harper's Bazaar in recent years can attest, it's quite a challenge to find models who don't look dour and perplexed, as though they've just gone through painful psychotherapy or mistaken whole milk for skim. The fashion business, for all its outward absurdity, isn't cheeky and good-humored at its core, and that is perhaps why Isaac Mizrahi made such an impression...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Designer Isaac Mizrahi: End of the Runway | 10/12/1998 | See Source »

Many first-years, Rous says, "are mistaken about the idea that there aren't enough spaces, because there are enough spaces for everyone to play. There aren't enough spaces in HRO [for everyone], but everyone who wants to play...

Author: By Rachel P. Kovner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: For First-Year Musicians, Selecting the Right Orchestra May Be Confusing | 9/21/1998 | See Source »

TIME's report on the Followers of Christ case left readers with the mistaken impression that the Oregonian newspaper broke this story. In fact, the first series of reports on the case aired on KATU-TV in Portland two full days in advance of the first Oregonian story. State medical examiner Larry Lewman told KATU first of his allegations in the case, and our initial reports detailed the estimates of the number of children who could have been saved with simple medical intervention. GARY WALKER, News Director KATU-TV Portland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 21, 1998 | 9/21/1998 | See Source »

...Gore thought vacationing in Hawaii would shelter him from Washington woes, he was sadly mistaken. As new evidence emerges in the case of the mysterious fund-raising phone calls, the Veep is once again in danger of finding his very own Ken Starr yapping at his heels. Justice Department investigators have turned up a 1995 memo from a senior Gore aide indicating that he and his boss discussed ways of diverting Democratic Party soft-money contributions into the Clinton-Gore reelection fund -- an apparent contravention of campaign finance laws...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Memo to Gore: While You Were Out... | 8/20/1998 | See Source »

...prosecution presented the case as a badly bungled robbery, arguing that Markhasev and two friends spotted Cosby on the roadside and Markhasev killed him. In opening arguments the defense suggested that Cosby was actually shot by one of Markhasev's companions, Eli Zakaria. But the mistaken-identity theory went nowhere, and Zakaria was never called to the stand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: His Just Reward? | 7/20/1998 | See Source »

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