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...accepting a plea bargain and agreeing to pay a $10,000 fine for misleading the FBI, former housing secretary Henry Cisneros has inadvertently added a moral postscript to the already ponderous Clinton-Lewinsky file: While good politicians sometimes pay for telling lies, the truly great ones never do. Cisneros, who served as HUD chief in the first Clinton administration, has at least a few things in common with his former boss. Both men inspired great expectations early in their careers, and both were investigated tirelessly by independent counsels over allegations of extramarital affairs ? and their inevitable aftershocks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Not-So-Slick Henry Cops Plea, Pays Piper | 9/8/1999 | See Source »

This "fairy tale" disintegrated into a cafe-society postscript. Living in exile in France, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, as they were officially styled, benefited from air fares and hotel suites paid for by nouveau riche hosts. They decorated the best nightclubs, the Duke always looking a bit bewildered. (There is a photo of them at El Morocco wearing matching paper crowns.) When the Duke died in 1972, he left Wallis 3 million [pounds] and a small tribe of pugs. She lived into a sad senility...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Love Was The Adventure | 6/14/1999 | See Source »

...gave his 82-second commencement address. The daffodils didn't know enough to stay under the mulch, the little white flags fluttered on the South Lawn putting green, aides stood in the sunshine listening to him apologize and reconcile one more time. And of course it was the postscript that sealed the day, after he turned to leave and heard the heavenly question transmitted by Sam Donaldson. "In your heart, sir, can you forgive and forget...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nightmare's End | 2/22/1999 | See Source »

Dunn added an upbeat postscript to the St. Lawrence debacle...

Author: By Richard B. Tenorio, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: W. Hockey Splits Weekend | 1/14/1998 | See Source »

Fagles made special effort in his translation to avoid the old-fashioned type of stilted, impenetrable rendering that forces the reader into saccadic conniptions in the search for a sentence's subject. With a smile he recognizes such age-old traps of translation in his book's postscript: "Not a line-by-line translation, my version of The Odyssey is, I hope, neither so literal in rendering Homer's language...

Author: By Nicolas R. Rapold, | Title: A Fitting Toast to the Teller of Tales | 2/27/1997 | See Source »

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