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...after Susan Webber Wright threw out the sexual harassment suit of the decade, all of the main players have had a shot at spinning the story. For the White House, it's a fully fledged vindication of Bill Clinton that puts pressure on Ken Starr to wrap up his Lewinsky investigation. Starr insists it has "no effect on our authority." And for Jones spokeswoman Susan Carpenter-McMillan, the ruling is a travesty that declares "open season on women here in this country for groping and grabbing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: After Paula | 4/2/1998 | See Source »

...signed a form stating that they are mentally and physically well. It is important that attendees be healthy. The Forum, which costs $350, still requires endurance. It consists of three 12- to 16-hour days--with time out for meals--and (after a one-day breather) a one-evening wrap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best Of Est? | 3/16/1998 | See Source »

...young people with promise, we are continuously presented with visions of the quick path to success. The next target lies just ahead, and we wrap ourselves up in meeting...

Author: By Aamir ABDUL Rehman, | Title: Losing Perspective | 3/5/1998 | See Source »

...focus on campus issues--issues where ostensibly students agree and the council can effect real change. This seems like a nice enough idea: let's pretty up this tower of ours. We pay well over a hundred thousand dollars to go to school here; we should be able to wrap our grapes in two-ply toilet paper and eat them in the back seat of student-accessible vans. Well, that is one use of "political capital...

Author: By Abigail R. Branch, | Title: Stuck in the Tower | 2/25/1998 | See Source »

Starr is moving fast to wrap up the Lewinsky part of his investigations. For one thing, as soon as he's off stage, the White House strategy of making him the issue loses steam. And since legal experts are divided on whether a sitting President can be charged with a crime--like most of them, Starr leans toward no--he's also not expected to indict Clinton himself, even if he does decide he has sufficient evidence to charge the President with perjury or obstruction of justice. Instead Starr is likely to hand off the whole mess to the House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Turning Up The Heat | 2/23/1998 | See Source »

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