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...What is emerging is just how much the entire investigation is relying on the word of Lewinsky's confidant, Linda Tripp. The now-famous Newsweek story, which was all set to scoop the world on Saturday, acknowledges Tripp as its main ? possibly only ? source. It is Tripp who has controlled access to the only 90 minutes of tape the media has heard, in which Lewinsky refers to an affair with "the big he" and "creep," and also says, alarmingly, "I have lied my entire life...
...more troubling. Lest anyone forget, President Clinton has called for a national dialogue on race, and Steven Spielberg's re-telling of a 19th century slaveship rebellion looks as if it may be embraced as the vehicle for bringing that dialogue to the wider public. Beginning with Newsweek a month before the film was released, the media has run countless features accompanied by commentaries discussing the state of race relations in this country. It is interesting to note that while these high-falutin' societal spreads have universally praised the movie as an extraordinary achievement, only independent film critics have dared...
...Unfortunately, the movie's simplistic message, while important, cannot inform the horrendous complexities of a serious contemporary discussion of race. What does Amistad teach its audience? Slavery was bad, a terrible crime. Freedom is much better. How does this message translate into grand societal questions? For the editors of Newsweek, the big questions were: Should the U.S. government apologize for slavery? Should we build a memorial to slavery? And how should we approach the salve ownership of the founding fathers...
...holidays ? a season of family, friends and forgiveness. That time of year when you chew cold turkey and reflect on what we have in common rather than what divides. And it is in this spirit of reconciliation that TIME Daily would like to say sorry to Newsweek for making fun of its digitally-altered Bobbi McCaughey cover. OJ knows, TIME isn?t above a bit of photo-tampering itself. Heck, practically anyone who?s ever owned Photoshop has given their relatives a gleaming new set of dentures at one time or another. Consider it forgotten, Newsweek. We won?t mention...
...keeps on giving ? media attention ? has started to seep through the walls of the humble McCaughey abode. Two-year-old Mikayla, the septuplets' elder sister, "shrieked with joy" when she saw her grandmother reading a pile of magazines with her parents' faces on the cover. Next question: What did Newsweek do to mommy's teeth...