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THROAT CLEARING Bill Clinton's doctors gave him a clean bill of health Saturday, except for swollen vocal cords. A history of his troubled larynx...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Clinton Voice Index | 10/4/1999 | See Source »

...visit a year ago," Hillary said at the Biondi event, "the last thing I imagined is that I would be standing here asking for your help in a run for the Senate." Indeed, a year ago some people didn't imagine she would still be standing. Her face swollen behind dark sunglasses, using Chelsea as a human shield between her and the man who'd just been outed by a blue dress, she barely spoke to anyone, least of all to him. There was no celebrity-clogged birthday dinner, no golf, no singing Gershwin around the piano as in years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sunny Days Are Here Again | 9/6/1999 | See Source »

Investing by yourself has its disadvantages. It is a solitary experience involving a subject--the market--that can be bizarre and irrational at times. Yet judging from the swollen ranks of practitioners, many people genuinely like it. They treat the stock market like a giant store, picking out their favorite merchandise, the Intels and the Ciscos, and buying when the market throws a periodic sale. They use weakness--the dips--to buy, and this has been the single best investment strategy for a decade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Drawing the Line | 8/23/1999 | See Source »

...that what Invincible Harvard Students did? And so, ignoring the pain in the arm on which I had fallen, I returned to my Holworthy dorm room and typed two papers. As my injured right arm weakened, my left automatically compensated--and broke down. Five days later, with both hands swollen and tender, I reported to University Health Services, wanting nothing more than a sling and a ice pack. Instead I got every student's nightmare prognosis: "You can't use your hands," the doctor told me. For how long? "It might be weeks. It might be months...

Author: By Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Putting the Pieces of College Life Together | 6/25/1999 | See Source »

...campaigns got to be less fun because the press corps got so swollen, you lost close contact with the candidate and his senior people," Boyd says...

Author: By Robert Boyd, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Reporting for Duty: Boyd Brings Honor to Journalism | 6/7/1999 | See Source »

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