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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...making sense of the Clinton videotapes will fall first to Fred Thompson, which is sort of an irony all its own. For it was Thompson, then a 30-year-old minority counsel to the Senate Watergate Committee, whose staff helped unearth the existence of Richard Nixon's secret White House recording system. The Clinton videotapes may not be incriminating, and they were never designed to be secret. But they can't be dismissed, for in Nixon's case the tapes proved to be the most powerful witness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LET'S GO TO THE VIDEOTAPE | 10/13/1997 | See Source »

...Democrats' devil-may-care pursuit of campaign money, no scheme was bolder than the secret financial alliance between the party and the re-election campaign of Teamster president Ron Carey. The trade-off, as proposed by Carey aides, boiled down to this: the Teamsters would deliver $1 million to the party's state branches around the country, and in exchange the party would tap its donors to provide Carey with $100,000 for his re-election bid. The true purpose: to funnel cash from the Teamster treasury into Carey's campaign, an illegal act that had to be done circuitously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A NEW WITNESS TO THE TEAMSTER CASH-SWAP PLAN | 10/13/1997 | See Source »

...some Presidents struggle to keep their physical frailties secret. Eisenhower called his first heart attack digestive upset. Kennedy played touch football with over-compensating vigor rather than give a hint of his Addison's disease. Bush got no sympathy for throwing up in Japan and no understanding when an aide blamed thyroid medicine for his cluelessness during the '92 campaign. Dole's remarking that "Some of the things that we read about don't return as quickly as advertised" after prostate surgery just reminded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHAT WAS THAT AGAIN? | 10/13/1997 | See Source »

Most famous for Europa, Europa, an almost-unclassifiable German historical drama-cum-comic-childhood-memoir, Holland has also directed films ranging from Olivier, Olivier, a French psychological thriller, to Fever, a pro-revolutionary Polish drama, and even found time for the 1994 English-language children's movie The Secret Garden...

Author: By Nicholas K. Davis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ms. Holland Goes 19th C | 10/10/1997 | See Source »

...mail is from a former NASA computer scientist (Gabriel Byrne) who has been assigned to a top-secret government project. In an old, abandoned observatory, he is in charge of thousands of cameras that have been set up to monitor everyday people--a system that would ultimately lead to "the end of violence." Only the scientist doesn't want to play Big Brother, so he leaks the information via e-mail...

Author: By Erwin R. Rosinberg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Some Technophobia for Everyone | 10/10/1997 | See Source »

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