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...expect so much more. In off-the-cuff remarks at a late-night Houston fund raiser earlier this month, Clinton suddenly broke into a disquisition on the movie Amistad and the heroic role that John Quincy Adams played as an ex-President. One line about Adams seemed to have struck home with the current Chief Executive: "Is there anything as pathetic as an ex-President?" Clinton told the crowd, "I'll try to beat the odds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton's Last Campaign | 1/26/1998 | See Source »

Monica Lewinsky's lawyer, William Ginsburg, and Special Prosecutor Kenneth Starr spent the day in the pas de deux that lawyers call the "immunity dance." No deal's been struck -- at least, none has been announced. Reportedly, Lewinsky would reverse her earlier testimony and say she had a sexual relationship with President Clinton in exchange for immunity. But Starr wants to hear the ex-intern testify that Clinton and Vernon Jordan pressured her into covering up the affair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lewinsky, Starr, and the Immunity Dance | 1/24/1998 | See Source »

Barbara Grossman, a past Bunting Fellow, drama professor at Tufts and a member of the National Council on the Arts, said she was "struck by [Smith's] willingness to use herself, her body and her passion, as the bridge to touch us, to move us and to galvanize us into action...

Author: By Elizabeth M. Darst, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Anna Deveare Smith Educates, Amuses Cambridge Crowd | 1/21/1998 | See Source »

...history, shortly after the Civil War: the westward emigration of former slaves into the sparsely settled territories of Oklahoma and beyond. Some found the promise of a new life in wide-open spaces, touted in numerous newspaper advertisements in the 1870s, irresistible, and a challenge besides. Morrison was struck by a caveat that often appeared in those ads: "Come Prepared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Paradise Found | 1/19/1998 | See Source »

...Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority police requested assistance with a person struck by an Amtrak train. The victim, a white female, was located on the commuter tracks under the Walden Street Bridge...

Author: By Marc J. Ambinder, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Police Log | 1/14/1998 | See Source »

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