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...deterred the press by a nanosecond. The story had elements to push almost anyone's emotional buttons. The Oedipal tinge of an affair between an adolescent and a man old enough to be her father. The Fatal Attraction echoes of a woman who supposedly would stop at nothing to possess the man she craved. The perennial conundrum of how a daughter from a nice and prosperous family might have gone so thoroughly wrong. New York City's three tabloid newspapers have covered the "Long Island Lolita" story with a thoroughness and imagination that they rarely bring to stories about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Read All About Lolita! | 6/15/1992 | See Source »

...trade with a bare-bottomed customer, said to be Fisher and a john, the competing Hard Copy aired a smidgen of the scene half an hour sooner, allegedly swiping it off a satellite feed. This prompted a lively melee over journalistic ethics in two corners not normally thought to possess many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Read All About Lolita! | 6/15/1992 | See Source »

Even though he came to Harvard bona fide rugby star, with the experience and talent few 17 year-olds possess, Soren Oberg realized that he would likely have to wait a few years before making the A-Side rugby team...

Author: By Jay K. Varma, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bluffing Your Way to the Top | 6/4/1992 | See Source »

...Truth about Gander, Inc. The organization was founded in 1989 by Dr. J.D. Phillips and his wife Zona of St. Petersburg, Florida. As father and stepmother of one of the victims, they charged the U.S. with "failing to conduct a full inquest, or even revealing the facts it does possess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gander Different Crash, Same Questions | 4/27/1992 | See Source »

Setting realistic priorities and putting together the coalitions to achieve them are obviously skills a President must possess. But some of Clinton's critics wonder if a President should not also be a bit more of a crusader than Clinton has proved himself. In their view, the Governor has been a bit too quick to settle for what he could get, a bit too reluctant to antagonize actual or potential supporters. "He never wants to move until he takes a poll; he has retreated where he didn't have to," says Tom McRae, a Little Rock lawyer who challenged Clinton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Clinton Ran Arkansas | 4/13/1992 | See Source »

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