Word: secrets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Well, as a resident Quadling (a Currierite, to be exact), I'll let you into a little secret: You're wrong. You got Quadded? That's cause for celebrating--and I'm not just putting on a brave face to make the best of a bad situation. I maintain that the Quad provides the best housing at Harvard, hands-down, no question about...
...scheme to buy the silence of disgraced Clinton pal Webster Hubbell in the Whitewater affair. In the most provocative charge yet, Kathleen Willey fingered him on 60 Minutes as the man who tried to get her to deny an alleged sexual advance by Clinton. But was Nate Landow a secret Clinton operative or an easy mark for a calculating gold digger...
...exciting and vivid, is more real than anything else, if only we, like Clinton, have the nerve to embrace it. This is the sort of thinking that got Emma Bovary into trouble. But the thought is also a kind of bull's-eye. Brown hit exactly upon Clinton's secret: he is the world-historical genius of the present tense...
...midst of another Springer spectacle was shocking. More than that, the incident marked the arrival on the program of what might be called the Forgotten Guest. One reason the show is so dramatic is that Springer brings out everyone involved in the affair at hand--all the secret lovers: male, female and transsexual. But even though pregnant women are a staple on the show, it's not usual for a child-to-be to appear. This time one did, reminding us that it would soon be arriving into the lives of the people throwing chairs at one another onstage...
...secret that come Millennium Eve, computers everywhere may be crashing faster than the Indonesian rupiah. Last week U.S. officials admitted that they've fixed only 35% of the most vital federal mainframes and won't have time before Dec. 31, 1999, to prevent all the 5,100 remaining machines from deciding it's 1900, not 2000. "Financial transactions could be delayed, airline flights grounded and national defense affected," warns the General Accounting Office's Gene Dodaro. Not to mention anyone caught in an elevator...