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HONEST, AL Presidential mendacity is not a pretty sight. To nip it in the bud, we at Notebook pledge to keep an eye on the presidential candidates, rating their less than truthful statements from slight exaggeration ([one shovel]) to whopper ([five shovels]). First up: Al Gore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Candidate Truth Watch | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

...RATING] [one shovel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Candidate Truth Watch | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

...hockey team of 1980 that beat the Russians. All across Minnesota, the quiet, decent people who believe in Good Government and Working Together to Resolve Differences are leaning forward in disbelief at the thought that the next Governor of their state might be THIS GREAT BIG HONKING BULLET-HEADED SHOVEL-FACED MUTHA WHO TALKS IN A STEROID GROWL AND DOESN'T STOP. And then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Minnesota's Excellent Ventura | 11/16/1998 | See Source »

There are no reasonably accurate estimates on the amount of money states shovel out. That's because few want you to know. Some say they maintain no records. Some say they don't know where the files are. Some say the information is not public. All that's certain is that the figure is in the many billions of dollars each year--and it is growing, when measured against the subsidy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporate Welfare: Corporate Welfare | 11/9/1998 | See Source »

...This answer helps explain the T shirt from Martha's Vineyard but stretches credulity when it comes to his giving her a copy of Whitman's Leaves of Grass, which he also happened to give Hillary when they were courting. As for Lewinsky's gifts to Clinton, many people shovel trinkets at the President, and the smart ones know the best way to get gifts to Clinton is through Currie. That still leaves unexplained whose idea it was for Monica to return the presents to Currie after Jones' lawyers subpoenaed them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will The Secretary Stick To The Script? | 3/16/1998 | See Source »

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