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...highlights of her bio became quickly familiar even (maybe especially) to those who pretended to hate the scandal. She served as a hired spy for Richard Nixon's factotums on George McGovern's press plane in 1972; every night she reported back the latest (and by all accounts politically worthless) gossip. She is the author of a series of racy novels about sex and intrigue--"chick stuff," she calls them. As a literary agent she has specialized in pariahs and troublemakers: Mark Fuhrman; Watergate figure Maurice Stans; Prince Charles' gabby valet; and Dolly Kyle Browning, a high school friend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Indiscreet Charm Of Lucianne Goldberg | 12/28/1998 | See Source »

...certainly a big relief for me, because I hadn't scored yet this year," Soldo said. "This was the moment I waited for. But, to score a goal at 0-3 with only four minutes left is almost worthless, so it was not as good as a first goal could have been...

Author: By Nicholas D. Zeitlin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Nor'easter Blows Through M. Soccer, 3-2 | 10/15/1998 | See Source »

...larger question: What was my scholarship worth? Sure, I had amply demonstrated that similarities exist between Ras and Garvey, but the causal link had been shattered by the only guy who had a right to do so--the author himself. I was wrong, and my paper was worthless...

Author: By Sujit Raman, | Title: Academic Truth Is All Relative | 10/6/1998 | See Source »

After a spectacular devaluation and default, what's a country to do? The answer from Russia's new central banker, VIKTOR GERASHCHENKO, is to print money, and lots of it. Printing presses are said to have been rolling for days, cranking out billions of nearly worthless rubles. Just how many have been printed is a state secret, but BORIS NEMTSOV, the 38-year-old (recently retired) Deputy Prime Minister, puts the figure at "between 9 billion and 12 billion rubles" (some $600 million to $800 million). Officially, the central bank only admits to printing "less than 1 billion" rubles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia: Hold On, Tovarich, Here Comes Hyperinflation | 10/5/1998 | See Source »

...career students and their employers love Harvard simply because it is Harvard: providing a good educational experience and a "Veritas"-stamped certificate that, while academically worthless, is resume gold worldwide...

Author: By David A. Fahrenthold, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Mid-Career Education Programs Attract Big-Wigs, Bring in Big Bucks | 10/1/1998 | See Source »

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