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...instance, you could be Boris Yeltsin. On Monday, he checked into a hospital for the umpteenth time this year, this time for a bleeding ulcer. I needn't convince anyone that having a whole in one's stomach can go a long way to dampering one's day. Add to his obvious physical distress the awareness that his country is falling into shambles, and you've probably got one sorry spirit...
...soooooooo fed up with the umpteenth TIME 100 issue. I want to inform myself about world politics, the arts, the economy, science and so forth. I don't want to read this boring stuff. KERSTIN BEHNKE-GAPP Roemerberg, Germany...
...rather than All the President's Men, I'm watching a pallid remake of Groundhog Day, the umpteenth reliving of Bill Clinton's worst 24 hours. And unlike Bill Murray, a small-market newscaster who finally gets it right, no one in this drama is changing for the better. Starr prissily boasts that he is not poll driven or part of the "talk-show circuit," despite having spent endless hours videotaping his rehearsals and, that same day, appearing on Good Morning America. Before the committee, Starr methodically recites his resume, as if who he is would serve as an explanation...
...streets, malls and public high schools of Los Angeles, as well as in Harvard Yard, there are more cultures than I can fathom. There are even more names, a medley against which Spain, or any other country with such a single dominant culture, can't compete. After meeting my umpteenth Javier, I realized that names alone can be an indicator of the variety of a place. It's not that there aren't common names in this country; my name alone claims an unruly percentage of each entering class at Harvard. But names come from a family's history, religion...
Saturday night's game versus Yale included muchless drama than the Brown contest, but Feasterstill owned the spotlight. Before a crowd ofbetter than 1,100--the largest for a women's homegame in the last three years--Feaster made IvyLeague history for the umpteenth time this season...