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...Patterson claim he sometimes visited mistresses when he was supposed to be out jogging, then splashed himself with water to give the impression that he was sweating from a long run. Other women were supposedly dallied with in parked cars, where Patterson says he twice saw a woman perform oral sex on Clinton. The troopers were around to wipe makeup off his shirt collar or arrange hotel- room encounters or sneak women into the Governor's mansion while Mrs. Clinton slept. The affairs continued after the election, the article claims, citing a case in which a trooper stood guard while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NIGHTMARES BEFORE CHRISTMAS | 11/3/2005 | See Source »

...going to have to take this in stride, and keep going.” Students who already purchased tickets will be refunded, McCambridge said. This marks the second time an appearance by Wyclef Jean at Harvard has been cancelled. The artist was scheduled to perform with Jurassic 5 in the spring of 2002, but the HCC cancelled the concert, fearing that not enough tickets would be sold. —Staff writer Alexander D. Blankfein can be reached at ablankf@fas.harvard.edu...

Author: By Alexander D. Blankfein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Wyclef Concert Cancelled After Slow Sales | 11/2/2005 | See Source »

...snow to queue up outside the packed Lowell Lecture Hall on Saturday night to catch the Black Students Association’s annual Apollo Night. Apollo Night, modeled after the Amateur Night at Harlem’s Apollo Theater, allows the audience to pick their favorite of competing performers by cheering or jeering. Before the show, co-emcee Lawrence E. Adjah ’06 instructed the audience, including parents visiting for freshman weekend, to “get up and dance.” The audience on Saturday night was vocal and energetic when they enjoyed acts...

Author: By Kathryn E. Patrick, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Cheers Resound for Performers at Apollo Night | 10/31/2005 | See Source »

...gate at 70 m.p.h. While better protection is the obvious answer, skaters want thin sneaker soles so they can feel their board, and skiers are reluctant to relinquish any flexibility. Enter snowboard-loving British inventors Richard Palmer and Phil Green, both 39, and their new material, d3o, which can perform a few high-speed tricks of its own. d3o's molecules flow as an athlete moves, but on impact they bind together instantaneously to absorb shock, then unlock to become soft and elastic once again. "It's a protective system that changes shape with you, so it doesn't restrict...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fast-Reacting Fabric: Going with the Flow | 10/30/2005 | See Source »

...waited for gas in Pompano Beach, in hard-hit Broward County. But any criticism of Florida paled in comparison to the scrutiny put on the Federal Emergency Management Agency, for which Wilma was a chance to redeem itself after the debacle of Hurricane Katrina. FEMA did perform more ably this time; but it fell short of redemption thanks to a Rube Goldberg bureaucracy that left local officials like Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Alvarez flummoxed by the "intricacies" of getting simple items like ice to "PODs" (points of distribution). Governor Jeb Bush tried to shield his brother George W. Bush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Florida: Just When You Thought It Was Safe... | 10/29/2005 | See Source »

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