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...have a little Clinton in us, and like it or not, that's one of the reasons he remains so popular. At the same time--and it's part of the same truth--those who hate Clinton the most seem to have more than the average share of him inside them, which may be one reason that spittle forms at the corners of Representative Bob Barr's mouth when he talks about the President. Hear his Clintonian combination of self-pity and feigned ignorance after he was called a racist for addressing the Council of Conservative Citizens, a group that...
...bones unearthed at Teotihuacan are plenty ancient, but there's old and then there's old--and a find announced by South African scientists last week makes A.D. 150 seem like yesterday. Researchers at the University of the Witwatersrand reported that they've discovered the skeleton of a human ancestor that could be as much as 3.5 million years...
...WORST Boy Groups Backstreet Boys. 'N Sync. 98 Degrees. All-male vocal groups are all over the charts and all over MTV. But their vocals skills are limited, and they seem to spend way too much time styling what little facial hair they have. The Jackson 5 did it better. These jokers make one long for the relative authenticity of the Spice Girls...
...KING OF THE WORLD: THE RISE OF MUHAMMAD ALI A book about a boxer would seem to lack, well, social significance. Not true here. David Remnick takes off from the 1964 bout in which a brash Cassius Clay dethroned the menacing heavyweight champ Sonny Liston. That fight changed Clay into Muhammad Ali and created a new sort of black athlete. Remnick's account of the aftershocks packs a punch...
...made his surname synonymous with limitless riches was reviled and caricatured during his life, and posterity has not been too much kinder. Biographer Ron Chernow's account portrays both the thin-lipped skinflint and the philanthropist who gave away hundreds of millions of dollars to worthy enterprises. Monopolies seem to be back in vogue. Wherever he is now, the old man must be smiling...