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...fraud charges for failing to report a windfall that might have helped pay her mother's nursing-home bill. Yeakel was revealed to have paid $17,000 in back taxes on the eve of announcing her candidacy. Congresswoman Barbara Boxer had 143 bounced checks to account for. In the nastiest race of all, two New York feminists, Geraldine Ferraro and Elizabeth Holtzman, went down biting and clawing -- to make way for a liberal man. And not all the new female candidates were even feminists: G.O.P. challengers Charlene Haar (South Dakota) and Linda Bean (Maine) proudly claimed to be "pro-life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Do Women Have to Celebrate? | 11/16/1992 | See Source »

Chemistry 10, "Foundations of Chemistry," is "the hardest, nastiest, dullest course you'll take at Harvard," according to this year's Confidential Guide. And now, thanks to an innovative new manual, the labs are a jungle...

Author: By Sarah E. Scrogin, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Chem Students Swing On Vines in Laboratory | 10/19/1992 | See Source »

...Clinton through right now; the Republicans, who have owned the White House, with the exception of the Carter hiatus, since 1968, are not inclined to yield easily. As the President again demonstrated Sunday night, no punch is being pulled. Bush has labeled this year's campaign the "nastiest" he has ever seen, but it is he who borrowed a tactic from the early career of Richard Nixon to imply that Clinton, as a student, was tainted by communism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's Clinton's to Lose | 10/19/1992 | See Source »

...turn into Clint. And when he does, it's not thrilling but scary. At the end he threatens to "come back and kill everyone." Behind him, lightning illuminates an American flag and underlines the film's dour message: the world's stalwart policeman can easily become the world's nastiest killer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Last Roundup | 8/10/1992 | See Source »

Today is the beginning of the rematch of September's nastiest bout--the Senate Democrats versus the president. This time, the president's representative in the ring is Robert Gates, his nominee to head the Central Intelligence Agency...

Author: By Jason M. Solomon, | Title: Battle Royale | 9/16/1991 | See Source »

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