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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Scandalous Wishes" (Opinion, Feb. 13) is both extremely biased and grossly overstated. Silverstein justifies President Clinton's alleged affair by nothing that the "Comeback Kid" has public opinion behind him. To justify an affair by turning to public opinion polls is inexcusable. How would you feel if your wife had an affair? I guess it would be OK if she had good poll scores. JEFFERY B. GOLDBERG Tucson, Ariz...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cheating Not Justified by Polls | 2/17/1998 | See Source »

...monuments of long ago still loom over Sevilla, so do the events of today. Two weeks ago, a politician roughly the equivalent of a deputy mayor and his wife were killed in the early morning hours in a street not far from the cathedral. The Basque terrorist group ETA (don't ask me what it stands for--I'm still a foreigner here) claimed responsibility for the assassination. While terrorism is, unfortunately, not unknown in the U.S., we are still accustomed to pinning it on a psychopath or a small group of fanatics. The idea of a terrorist group established...

Author: By Malka A. Older, | Title: Dancing With the Past | 2/17/1998 | See Source »

Hughes' silence about this matter over all the succeeding years puzzled some and infuriated others, particularly since he owned the rights to Plath's writings and admitted destroying and suppressing some of them out of concern for his children's feelings. While censoring some of his dead wife's words, had he nothing at all to say for himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poet's License | 2/16/1998 | See Source »

...subpoenas without Richard Mellon Scaife and his fevered friends. But they didn't put Monica Lewinsky in the White House. Of course, the guy who recommended her, Walter Kaye, is a particular friend of Hillary Clinton's, but I never figured Hillary for the engineer of this. Wronged wife who finally takes revenge? Too obvious. Too much like a Barbara Stanwyck movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Give Me a Break! | 2/16/1998 | See Source »

...Friday, Romer acknowledged a "very affectionate relationship" with Betty Jane ("B.J.") Thornberry, 51, once his deputy chief of staff in Denver and now at the D.N.C. Beside him as he confessed was his wife of 45 years. Beatrice Romer insisted that Roy had told her about Thornberry "from the beginning" and that "it has not affected our marriage or our family." Several of their seven grown children later spoke up to agree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Just an Affectionate guy | 2/16/1998 | See Source »

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