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There is throughout the account the sweet-and-sour scent of a high school romance. Lewinsky talked of presents they exchanged: he gave her a dress and a volume of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass; she gave him ties and a statue of a frog (an old Clinton obsession), along with love letters and a sexually explicit tape; the packages were addressed to Currie and delivered by private courier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton's Crisis: Truth or...Consequences | 2/2/1998 | See Source »

...party with a pro-life plank in its platform, but G.O.P. leaders are worried that the resolution would set a precedent for imposing litmus tests on its candidates. It would be especially damaging to the G.O.P. in the Northeast, where pro-choicers like New Jersey Governor Christine Whitman, who vetoed a partial-birth abortion ban, are already struggling to be heard over the party's dominant wing of Southern conservatives. Concerned that the resolution might pass, R.N.C. chairman Jim Nicholson took the unusual step last week of publicly urging committee members to vote no. Quoting Ronald Reagan, Nicholson wrote, "Those...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The G.O.P.'s Troublemaker | 1/19/1998 | See Source »

Adams House: Laura A. Fernandez, literature; Gopal Garuda, economics; Thomas E. Gunderson, applied mathematics; Abhinav Seth, biochemical sciences; Danielle E. Sherrod, anthropology; Bradley L. Whitman, economics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Phi Beta Kappa Elections | 12/16/1997 | See Source »

...WALT WHITMAN...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 24, 1997 | 11/24/1997 | See Source »

...critic Robert Hughes would have the sensitivity and perspective to see artist Robert Rauschenberg [ART, Oct. 27] as the Walt Whitman of the 20th century art world? Who could better distinguish the American character of Rauschenberg's work than a critic who just completed a marathon book on our visual culture, American Visions? KIT BASQUIN Milwaukee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 24, 1997 | 11/24/1997 | See Source »

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