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What is really annoying about movies like this is their insistence that all women really need to get rid of abusive boyfriends is a little witchcraft. Not only that, but Hollywood continues to try and convince us that the best way for women to bond outside of PTA phone trees and sewing bees is by holding a good old-fashioned coven. In what remains the most embarrassingly overplayed line in the whole movie, one of the town housewives turned coven-member brandishes her broom and says, "Come on ladies, it's time to clean house...

Author: By Meredith B. Osborn, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Sleepover Slump: `Magic' Fails to Charm | 10/23/1998 | See Source »

These days the average American reacts to the news reports of Monica Lewinsky and the release of grand jury evidence with a channel change. Confessions of President Clinton? Turn the page. I can't wait for the November elections. It will be great to be rid of many members of the current Congress, end this investigation and get the nation back to business. MARY FREEMAN Berkeley, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 19, 1998 | 10/19/1998 | See Source »

Frank countered these attacks handily. "What isthe alternative to acceptance? Tragically, one isto get rid of [gays]," he said...

Author: By Robert K. Silverman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Barney Frank Speaks at HLS | 10/16/1998 | See Source »

...Neither has been hit directly by the panic," he said. "The main thing they want to understand is what lessons can youlearn, [like] don't open financial markets to theoutside world with a sick banking system. The nameof the game is to get rid of the conditions thatcaused...

Author: By Vicky C. Hallett, CONTRIBUTING WRITERS | Title: Profs. Work to Solve World Financial Crisis | 10/16/1998 | See Source »

...happy about the ultimate decision by the honchos of Urban Out-fitters to get rid of the costume, but I don't think this is enough," said Nguyen, who is a Crimson editor...

Author: By Joseph P. Chase, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Urban Outfitters Chain Pulls Racist Costumes | 10/14/1998 | See Source »

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