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...initial festivities included a Radcliffe Union of Students Expo on self-expression and verbal self-defense, and a "Naked Grrrls' Brunch"--a clothing swap...

Author: By Erika L. Guckenberger, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Panel Discusses Obstacles to Women in Business | 12/9/1997 | See Source »

...check into the best hotel still standing in some chaotic corner of the world; sally forth each day with your cameraman to gather images of anonymous suffering that will, ironically, make you famous to television viewers around the globe; beat it back to the journalists' bar each night to swap war stories with your colleagues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: FOR THE SAKE OF PEACE | 12/1/1997 | See Source »

...year that because Iraq has made progress toward eliminating its arsenals of missiles and chemical weapons (though not its biological stores), it should receive some kind of carrot--a partial lifting of economic sanctions--to go with all the sticks. (The U.S. considers the "oil-for-food" swap it approved last December to be in this category; the plan allowed Iraq to sell $4 billion worth of oil, using the money for food and medicine.) The motives of the French and the Russians are suspect, however, because both countries stand to reap financial windfalls from a lifting of sanctions. Iraq...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FACING DOWN A DESPOT | 11/24/1997 | See Source »

Those contributions have come under Justice Department scrutiny since Carey loyalists admitted in guilty pleas last month that among schemes to funnel money into Carey's re-election campaign in 1996, they tried to pull off a donation swap with Democrats--a swap that party officials entertained briefly, then apparently rejected. The new documents do not implicate the White House in the scotched deal, but they offer a rare glimpse into West Wing wooing of the Teamsters to guarantee its help in Clinton's re-election campaign. "Carey is not a schmoozer," states the 1995 memo to Ickes. "He wants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WALNUT OVERTURE | 10/27/1997 | See Source »

...have been charged. In an interview, Sullivan said he never took the Davis deal seriously. He simply asked Thomann to see if the transfer from Vasquez to Carey was "possible," Sullivan said, and dropped the issue after that. What Senate investigators want to know is how far the grand swap extended, which is why Mark Thomann is scheduled to take an oath before Fred Thompson's Donorgate committee this week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A NEW WITNESS TO THE TEAMSTER CASH-SWAP PLAN | 10/13/1997 | See Source »

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