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...enjoys among a majority of Americans would sink like a stone. It's one thing to have an abstract notion that he actually had an affair and covered it up (and to have that leak from Starr's grand jury). It's another to hear it from his own mouth, to have the fig leaf of doubt removed and be forced to confront our own moral laxity in being willing to overlook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Confession Game: Assuming It's The Truth, | 8/17/1998 | See Source »

...takes some comfort in the fact that in contrast to typical grand-jury testimony, the President's lawyer will remain at his side rather than having to wait outside. "Kendall's job will be to sit there with a briefcase full of socks ready to stuff them into his mouth," jokes a Washington defense lawyer. Kendall might also remind the questioners that they are talking to the President of the U.S.--a protocol Clinton cannot enforce himself. But Kendall can do only so much. If he pulls on the President's sleeve one time too many, the interruption...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Over To You, Bill Clinton | 8/17/1998 | See Source »

...deal. Promoting himself, he liked to imply that he had smuggled marijuana to make ends meet. When stardom hit, Rolling Stone repeated the old tales in a 1979 cover story, and Buffett was detained by the authorities in St. Barts, where he was then living. "Me and my big mouth," he says. "I had never been a dope dealer; I was just hangin' in the bars, tryin' to be cool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Still Rockin' In Jimmy Buffett's Key West Margaritaville | 8/17/1998 | See Source »

Beefcake asked about my major. How could I say Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations? Not only was the name a mouthful he'd never get his mouth around, but I'd also out myself as a brain. That would mean the end of the conversation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POSTCARD FROM NEW ROCHELLE | 8/14/1998 | See Source »

...compared high schools. My mouth closed on itself as I realized that I needn't ask the college question. Fix-It-Boy popped the question instead. Did I go to college, why of course. Where? Well...I searched for an answer. Harvard meant the end of the conversation, and our girl on the scene knew that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POSTCARD FROM NEW ROCHELLE | 8/14/1998 | See Source »

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