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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...adultery and lying--no angels themselves, they didn't really care--but the fact that the President and Commander in Chief was such a lousy adulterer and liar. For these men, to get caught red-handed in a fling easily manageable by any Joe capable of running a screw gun raised questions of Clinton's basic masculine competence. Indeed, if the Starr report could be believed, America's alpha male was something worse than a sinner or a lawbreaker. He was a fool, and a crybaby to boot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What The Guys Think: Clinton's A Screw-Up | 9/21/1998 | See Source »

...dodges the question. "Many people do things 'too much,'" she points out. "Eating quarts of ice cream at night, smoking three packs a day and sitting at the computer 10 hours at a time." I wait in vain for her to get to the too-much part. Later I screw up my courage and phone Donna Hoffman, a professor at Vanderbilt University who has conducted more studies of online usage than anyone else I know. "Color me baffled," she says. Hoffman believes the report is critically flawed. For starters, there was no control group--composed of, say, people outside Pittsburgh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bummed Like Me | 9/14/1998 | See Source »

...Russian riddle asks, How many rubles does it take to screw up a nation? --Richard Belzer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Sep. 7, 1998 | 9/7/1998 | See Source »

...Anybody who stays at the Slabs in summer's got to have a loose screw," insists Mike Aleksick, the fire marshal in nearby Niland (pop. 1,042). He's made friends among the 5,000 snowbirds who come in each winter, but there are outlaws among them too. "I've been shot at twice and been in fistfights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: So Who's Crazy, Them Or Us? | 8/17/1998 | See Source »

...burn rats out of defunct air raid shelters. Imagine the wonders he can work when satirizing a sadistically strict math teacher or when describing the ghost of the narrator's little sister. Another ghost story, related by the narrator's aunt by way of Henry James' Turn of the Screw, gains spookiness in the retelling. And the sex talk kindly given the narrator by an avuncular priest, which leads the boy to conclude that "love is in Latin, lust isn't," is uproarious...

Author: By Elizabeth A. Murphy, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Deane's New Novel Explores N. Ireland Tensions | 6/26/1998 | See Source »

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