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...sick of Ma Soba, Pho Pasteur and the Gato Rojo. I'm sick of the pit, the Kong, The Wrap and the Chinese Food Truck (which I still haven't found...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Upton, | Title: Ready for the Real World | 9/30/1998 | See Source »

Power tends to play a large role in determining attractions. Hey, even Kissinger pointed out that power is the greatest aphrodisiac. To a sixteen year-old, captain of the football team may represent pure power. That doesn't mean she can't giggle coyly and use womanly wiles to wrap him around her little finger. Is Monica guilty of such giggles? Maybe, though perhaps in this case giggles have translated into rapt interest into how the country is run. Regardless, power plays a role, and unequal allotments of traditional power don't always imply wrongdoings...

Author: By Sarah Jacoby, | Title: Monica's Wily Charms | 9/29/1998 | See Source »

...intervening in Pakistani politics, are displeased with the Prime Minister, and some analysts fear that Nawaz Sharif's actions may increase friction between the pro-Western secularists and religious extremists within the ranks. Warns Maleeha Lodi, a newspaper editor and former ambassador to Washington: "Nawaz Sharif is trying to wrap himself in Islam. Perhaps he doesn't know that this will drive deeper wedges into a society that's already badly fragmented...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pakistan: The Sword Of Islam | 9/28/1998 | See Source »

...designed to help fund and promote mass-market space travel. ShareSpace's vision for cosmic tourism includes Earth-orbiting ships carrying as many as 100 people and clusters of modules that could act as orbiting hotels. "All we have to do," Aldrin says, "is use existing rocket technology and wrap an airplane around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vacations in Orbit | 9/28/1998 | See Source »

...instructions for hooking up a VCR. Since that definition hinged upon specifics of who touched what and what went where, Starr will need to spell out just those things. That was apparently why he secretly called Lewinsky back to his offices on Aug. 26 for two hours of wrap-up questioning so explicit it was the verbal equivalent of a cavity search. The questions involved such intimate specifics that Starr arranged for all lawyers and stenographers in the room to be women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Politics Of Yuck | 9/14/1998 | See Source »

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