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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Every politician knows what would happen if he were in Clinton's shoes. "Imagine if I were caught in my office with an intern," a moderate Senator told a group of mayors. "I'd be run out of town. Gone." Like all caucuses, the G.O.P.'s is driven by its most passionate members. While some are troubled by Ken Starr's veering off into a consensual affair, they hardly balance those who are enraged by Clinton. But perhaps the greatest fear in the G.O.P. is the O.J. factor--that if acquitted, Clinton will throw a party and announce a search...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Driven to Distraction | 2/8/1999 | See Source »

...Hollywood, agents and managers live in a symbiotic world, working together to cater to star egos and pocketbooks. So the seven clients with ties to both CAA and Ovitz's new AMG were appalled at their predicament. The rest of the town was enthralled. THE GREAT CAA-OVITZ WAR: WHOSE SIDE ARE YOU ON?, blared the Hollywood Reporter. Would Madonna make the leap? (Maybe, maybe not.) Would Spielberg? (Absolutely not, he said, since CAA packaged his hit Saving Private Ryan.) But of the seven who got the ultimatum, director Martin Scorsese and actors Marisa Tomei and Mimi Rogers have joined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Clash Of The Titans | 2/8/1999 | See Source »

...Cambridge is no longer a small, nice, get-together town," he said. "Now it's all Mercedes and BMWs and nice sports cars; there are no more Fords or Chevrolets. It's all going to the rich...

Author: By Robert K. Silverman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gentrification to Increase in 1999 | 2/3/1999 | See Source »

...case involves six families living in Woburn, Mass. who accused two major companies--W.R. Grace & Co. and Beatrice Foods Co.--of contaminating the town's well water with toxic chemicals that cause leukemia. The families alleged that the chemicals caused the death of five children. Eight years later, the plaintiffs settled out of court for $8 million...

Author: By Robert K. Silverman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Real Life Cast of `A Civil Action' Reunites at HLS | 2/3/1999 | See Source »

...campaign" was short, confined to predictable platitudes. The candidates--the incumbent village chief, the town treasurer, the chair of the local women's association and the school principal--stood stiffly on a stage. They gave brief, stilted speeches, pledging to represent the people's interest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eyewitness: An Experiment in Voting, If Not Democracy | 2/1/1999 | See Source »

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