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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...just push the 'off' button even when Suddenly Susan is on. Fools. As if having the self-control to make it to and through this academic furnace meant I had the willpower to do something as important as turn off the television. You might as well trust me enough to walk into Quincy without stealing any furniture from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: an open letter to the college | 10/8/1998 | See Source »

Some of the hippies will call this paternalistic, saying that implicit in the offer of admission to Harvard is a trust that the admitted student is smart enough to make their own fashion decisions. Just like now: they say anyone whom you trust to lead America into the next century should be trusted to lead themselves through Currier House without committing a spontaneous felony. I say to these people, tell that to the 25 upperclass students mugged in their own rooms every year by cash-strapped a cappella groups that have turned to banditry. Think what would happen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: an open letter to the college | 10/8/1998 | See Source »

...This election is about one thing--trust. He's flip-flopped on almost every major issue," Harshbarger said...

Author: By Michael E. Thakur, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Candidates Square Off In Debate | 10/6/1998 | See Source »

Unfortunately for Lewinsky, her talent for winning people's trust was matched by a weakness for bestowing it. Worse, the person she chose to trust the most had a singular gift for eliciting confessions--and filing them away for later use. Playing the experienced mother superior to Lewinsky's bubbly flying nun, Linda Tripp was the ideal repository for the younger woman's schemes and dreams. Once, in the wee hours of the morning, when Tripp was sleeping over at Lewinsky's apartment, Lewinsky was called by the President, she testified, for what may have been a round of phone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Papa Bill, Mama Linda, Baby Monica | 10/5/1998 | See Source »

...find it appalling that the majority of the people still want to trust a man who not only violated his marriage vows but then lied about what he did. How is it that the leader of the free world can be held to a lower standard than the citizens of the country he serves? JOAN L. RICHWINE Locust Grove...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 5, 1998 | 10/5/1998 | See Source »

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