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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That name recognition isn't all bad--it helped make George Walker Bush the front runner--but he knows it won't take him where he wants to go. And so, at a time when he isn't saying much of anything else, George W. is working hard to signal that he's his own man. This is a neat trick in a family and country that value loyalty but worship winners. Which is why just about every time the Governor sits down with a group of pilgrims to Austin, he makes an important safety announcement. "This is not going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign 2000: The Bush Rolodex | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

...against McDougal, along with the June 14 trial of Hillary's former law partner WEBSTER HUBBELL, are certain to stir all the old questions about Hillary's own ethics. Her name was mentioned no fewer than 36 times in the indictment against Hubbell last fall. But despite the new signal of how bumpy a ride she may face, Hillary headed off to North Africa no closer to a decision, an adviser says. "She's exactly where she was four weeks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign 2000 | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

...premise behind Fortress, a $30 lie-detector program you can download from www.digitalrobotics.com to your PC and use to test your friends and family (with their consent, of course) or sound bites pulled off the Net, TV or radio. It analyzes recordings in any language. Beeps during playback signal an effort to deceive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Your Technology Mar. 22, 1999 | 3/22/1999 | See Source »

...against McDougal, along with the June 14 trial of Hillary?s former law partner Webster Hubbell, are certain to stir all the old questions about Hillary?s own ethics. Her name was mentioned no fewer than 36 times in the indictment against Hubbell last fall. But despite the new signal of how bumpy a ride she may face, Hillary headed off to North Africa no closer to a decision, an adviser says. ?She?s exactly where she was four weeks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hillary Hears Strains of The Music She Will Face | 3/22/1999 | See Source »

Book and magazine publishers often follow a hypocritical convention of burying the scoop deep in the text--to signal that they're not really about anything so vulgar and transitory as news. Then they launch a publicity barrage, invariably including a press release written in traditional journalistic "pyramid style"--that is, with the scoop on top, where it belongs. ("ALBRIGHT SAYS CLINTON NEVER TOUCHED HER. In her just published memoir, Woman of the World, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright denies reports in former White House press secretary Mike McCurry's recent memoir, The Soul of Discretion, that President Clinton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Trouble with Scoops | 3/15/1999 | See Source »

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