Word: smarted
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...place, and though Lewinsky says he never explicitly asked her to lie, they had often discussed keeping their relationship secret. As Lewinsky told Linda Tripp in a recorded conversation, "I don't think he thinks of [it as] lying under oath... He thinks of it as...'We're being smart; we're being safe; it's good for everybody.'" Jordan testified that Clinton was "concerned about the affidavit and whether it was signed or not," and he had kept up "a continuing dialogue" with Clinton on the matter. Phone records for Jan. 6, for example, show Jordan in contact with...
Mike (Matt Damon) is a gifted, honorable, high-stakes poker player trying to leave the game so he can finish law school. Worm (Edward Norton) is a gifted, dishonorable player given to dealing from the bottom of the deck. The mystery of Rounders is why a smart guy risks repute, not to mention life and limb, to help a dumb and self-destructive one. Still, if Rounders lacks the sardonically twisted plots and people of Dahl's best work (Red Rock West, The Last Seduction), it is, like them, well acted and atmospherically arresting. The director fails to fill this...
...kids need to know." But the first step may be even simpler--as simple as challenging average kids as much as we do the brightest students. Just ask Meghan Malone, a high-achieving, freckle-faced Des Moines ninth-grader. "When you expect all kids to be smart," she says, walking out of her honors English class, "they will be." It may not be that easy, but it would be a start...
Forget the legal semantics, the question of perjury. He lied to us. All of us. And for no other reason than to save himself. But this is a democracy, not a monarchy. The President is smart and often well-intentioned, but he is not unique--he is not irreplaceable. When he finally had to face the music on Aug. 17, in grand jury testimony and then in his public address, Clinton didn't seem to realize that our patience had run out. His speech was a non-apology. He did not say "I'm sorry" or "I was wrong...
...early December, and very often that selling leads to a "Santa Claus rally" around Christmas, and then to the "January effect" as investors buy stocks that have been driven arbitrarily low. But in a year like this one, with widespread losses, it makes sense to start sooner. "The smart move is to think like it's November in September," says John Manley, market strategist at Salomon Smith Barney...