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...Starr this week should be wary: the independent counsel has no place to go but up. Yes, the star witness at impeachment hearings will be forced to account for every questionable turn in his investigation of Monica Lewinsky. But Starr, often caricatured as a pious partisan out to ruin Bill Clinton at any cost, comes well trained for the contest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Starr's Turn on the Grill | 11/23/1998 | See Source »

...could erase easily but getting the paperback into [the typewriter]" was tough, Kemplesays. "I would clog up--ruin--typewriters becauseI made so many mistakes...

Author: By Mary C. Cardinale, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Alumni Share Highlights of Past Harvard-Yale Contests | 11/20/1998 | See Source »

...project about mythical and intellectual beginnings. The first book in the series was the critically and popularly acclaimed The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony, which recounted with proper flair and fervor the entire chronology and theogeny of Greek and Roman mythology for over-stimulated postmodern audience. Next came The Ruin of Kasch, which told of how modern culture and ideas can spring from the complete decimation of a past culture. In Ka, Calasso tackles the myths of the Indian subcontinent and traces the theological origins of that culture from these stories...

Author: By Ankur N. Ghosh, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Indian Campfire Tales | 11/20/1998 | See Source »

...Parrish and his family, at least as they are presented in Meet Joe Black, know about life? Mostly they are observed dressed to the nines, eating delicately prepared viands and enjoying life in either a Manhattan penthouse, where one prays the swimming pool does not spring a leak and ruin the library's first editions, or a riverside mansion, where the helicopter pad blends nicely into the landscape. There is no rage, pain or panic in any of these venues, and no wild laughter either. There are only the muttered discontents of the well favored...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Death Be Not Proud | 11/16/1998 | See Source »

...have 13 black cats, and the plan right now is to glue them to trees in the Yard, but I can't tell you where--that would ruin it," said Matthew J.T. Murray '99, the Lampoon president...

Author: By Adam M. Taub, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Secularists Rail Against Superstition | 11/13/1998 | See Source »

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