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As for the President, what is being a lame duck if not a near-death experience? Why can't he offend the power players? He doesn't need them anymore--unless he's planning to build a really, really big presidential library. He should be going after the producers of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Terminal Case Of Telling The Truth | 5/11/1998 | See Source »

As a Polish-American descended from serfs who lived under the oppression of Russian imperialists, I find this comment so absurd I would laugh if it didn't make me ill. My ancestors were serfs unit 1861, when Alexander II of Russia finally emancipated them. Afterwards, they lived in wretched...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Responsibility' for Slavery Based on Generalizations | 4/27/1998 | See Source »

Tomes--or "Brother Bill," as he has come to be known--has seen some of his best friends murdered on this field. The victims are not pals from his college days at Notre Dame or buddies from the well-to-do Evanston neighborhood where he grew up. They are mostly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In The Line Of Fire | 4/20/1998 | See Source »

In his article on the Manhattan district attorney's seizure of two paintings whose ownership is disputed by descendants of Viennese Jewish families [ART, Jan. 19], Robert Hughes described the "impeccable conduct" of the present Austrian government in dealing with the restoration of art stolen by the Nazis. If this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 9, 1998 | 2/9/1998 | See Source »

When the Monica Lewinsky storm engulfed the White House, one caller to his old friend Bill was Dick Morris, famously felled by his own sex scandal. Some advisers didn't want Clinton to return the call -- one group thought Morris was bad for the regular staff's morale, another just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: With Advisers Like These... | 1/28/1998 | See Source »

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