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...finally over. After five years and nigh on $50 million of phony, partisan investigations and more than a year of media hysteria and round-the-clock cable coverage, the scandal has finally come to a close. The Senate vote will mark an end to this ugly chapter, and congressional Democrats and Republicans will make peace and begin solving the problems of the next millennium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How I'd Throttle the G.O.P. | 2/22/1999 | See Source »

...roaming Capitol Hill [trying] to find tourists with video cameras," Turley says. "There is a fear that many of us will become pundit mercenaries and travel to other countries as impeachment commentators for hire." Wisecracks aside, he knows his 15th minute is nigh; he must soon return to the quotidian life of teaching and writing. "I can find something to occupy my time," he sighs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pundits: Out of Gas? | 2/22/1999 | See Source »

LOWELL, Mass--Acting Governor A. Paul Cellucci and Attorney General L. Scott Harshbarger '64 squared off in the first debate of the gubernatorial campaign last nigh before a boisterous crowd in this former mill town...

Author: By Michael E. Thakur, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Candidates Square Off In Debate | 10/6/1998 | See Source »

...Watching her play the other nigh, I was petrified of her," Smith said in the post-game press conference. "I don't think I've seen a player take over a game like that. She is just unbelievable. I think she's definitely underrated...

Author: By Eduardo Perez-giz, | Title: Cinderella Run Gunned Down By Sharpshooting Arkansas | 3/17/1998 | See Source »

...them neatly folded next to their body. It was a remarkably well-choreographed departure. But the largest mass suicide in U.S. history blasted the doors wide open onto a considerably less tidy world--a jumbled universe of UFOs and extraterrestrials careening smack into apocalyptic Christian heresies and end-is-nigh paranoia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 1989-1998 Transformation | 3/9/1998 | See Source »

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