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In 1993, President Clinton appointed Mary Jo White the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, the first woman to hold what is widely considered the nation's most prestigious post for prosecutors. Eight years later, after months of grandstanding at congressional hearings and scattered inquiries into Clinton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIME.com Profile: Mary Jo White | 3/13/2001 | See Source »

This Politburo-style leadership is unfair and unseemly at Harvard. As an influential part of an institution which claims to be devoted to democratic principles, the committee should be promoting public discourse and encouraging participation from everyone in the University. But our best efforts to engage in a dialogue with...

Author: By Lara Z. Jirmanus and Nathan R. Perl-rosenthal, S | Title: Silent Search, Secret Search | 3/5/2001 | See Source »

Grammys are given out in 100 mind-numbing categories. If you didn't win one, you clearly weren't trying. With so much hardware so readily available, the real competition at last week's ceremony took place between artists trying to bend ever lower beneath the limbo bar of exuberant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: London, France But No Underpants | 3/5/2001 | See Source »

For another, Big points out, Bing hasn't left the slum neighborhood in a year. He doesn't work. He doesn't do anything but smoke. (Bing just shrugs when I ask if it's true that he hasn't left in a year. "I'm too skinny to leave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Need for Speed | 3/4/2001 | See Source »

The Fragments are all that are left of Heraclitus's great book, "On Nature," which was lost many centuries ago. The Fragments have a scattered, enigmatic quality - epigrams and bits of poetry saved from the ruins. But they have a wit, and, for an "obscure" philosopher, a prismatic clarity that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A 'Fragment' of Sense in a Mediocre World | 2/27/2001 | See Source »

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