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With two preliminary runs and two finals, the halfpipe riders powered through the relentless downpour, pumping up the resilient crowd that lined the course in bleachers and stood thousands deep at the bottom. In the end, Swiss rider Gian Simmen managed to edge out Norwegian Daniel Franck in the day's last run for the gold medal. American Ross Powers hung on for bronze with huge airs and rapid rotations. Germany's Nicola Thost took the first women's halfpipe gold and Norway's Stine Brun Kjeldaas picked up the silver. American Shannon Dunn slipped slightly just before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Snowboard: Olympics: Dazed And Confused | 2/23/1998 | See Source »

...threat has led activists to present a united and relentless front. In addition to Green, campus luminaries such as former president of the Undergraduate Council Lamelle D. Rawlins '99 (12/5/97) and current Crimson Editorial Board Chair Geoffrey C. Upton (11/18/97 and 12/16/97) have attacked and bemoaned the rising tide of "anti-progressivism" (Green's term) on this page. Green says that anti-progressivism "disgust[s]" him. Rawlins reports that it is "disingenuous." And Upton wishes the anti-progressives would "let those of us who would rather try to make a difference than not do just that" (11/18/97). (PSLM would have...

Author: By Thomas B. Cotton, | Title: One Cheer for Apathy | 2/18/1998 | See Source »

Lawyers for each side traded blame for the sordid affair. Giles depicted his clients as the victims of a relentless infiltrator who tracked the family from Los Angeles to Portland, baby sitting the kids, befriending Kathlyn, all the while sleeping with Andy. Ginsburg, who acknowledged the affair happened, pointed out that Bleiler "is a former schoolteacher having sex with a teenager." Still, Giles maintains that Monica was "obsessed with sex. She went to Washington with the intent to have sex with the President." And, he charged, Monica had a "pattern of twisting facts, especially to enhance her own version...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Trouble with Monica Lewinsky | 2/9/1998 | See Source »

WASHINGTON: With Monica Lewinsky's absence giving the Capital a bit of a breather, the talk has turned to how the Clinton Administration can narrow the scope of Ken Starr's relentless inquiry. And the answer is two words: Executive privilege. Invoking the rights of White House employees on the basis of national security, Washington lawyers say, could delay the independent counsel's investigation and provoke a protracted court battle. "What they are discussing is what witnesses will be able to talk about ... with certain privileges to protect," one official told...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wall of Silence | 2/4/1998 | See Source »

After Lyndon Johnson's death in 1973, a biographer hesitantly asked Lady Bird Johnson how she reacted to Lyndon's many extramarital love affairs. With that heroically relentless smile of hers, Lady Bird replied that Lyndon loved people and half the people on earth are women, so it seemed natural that he would love them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Reckless and the Stupid | 2/2/1998 | See Source »

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