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...will be remembered alongside Abraham Lincoln in American history books: Lincoln is forever celebrated for his Gettysburg Address; Clinton will be forever linked to the Lewinsky dress. Lincoln was the Great Emancipator; Clinton will be the Great Prevaricator. When we think of Lincoln, the phrase "Honest Abe" comes to mind; for Clinton, it will be "Honestly, Bill!" PETER DZWONKOSKI Rochester...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 19, 1998 | 10/19/1998 | See Source »

...White House. And Bennett also said his current $700,000 offer wouldn't be on the table forever. Jones herself, egged on by husband Steve and spokeswoman Susan Carpenter McMillan, had decided to up the ante and demand $1 million from both Clinton and New York parking lot magnate Abe Hirschfeld. Her lawyers argued bitterly against such a plan, seen as an unrealistic money grab. As they expected, the Clinton camp scoffed. Jones had better hope the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Minnesota looks on her case more favorably than Judge Wright did -- or she'll exit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Paula Files, Part II | 10/19/1998 | See Source »

...poverty, potholes and a broken-down transit system, one would think the vast power of the city council could be put to better use than analyzing UPN's Monday-night schedule." Still, in an attempt to defuse the flap, the network yanked the pilot and substituted an episode titled "Abe Online," which depicts the Great Emancipator (played by Dann Florek) carrying on an illicit romance via the telegraph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dumb and Dumber | 10/12/1998 | See Source »

...aired the premiere of The Secret History of Desmond Pfeiffer, a sitcom about Abe Lincoln's fictional black butler, causing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Oct. 12, 1998 | 10/12/1998 | See Source »

...HONEST, ABE! Yes, that really was Senator Strom Thurmond cheering Nelson Mandela below a statue of Abraham Lincoln last week. Thurmond, who in 1948 ran for President as a segregationist and who in 1957 conducted a record-busting filibuster against a civil rights bill, was not always so Mandela friendly. In 1985 he voted against imposing economic sanctions on South Africa's apartheid regime and for a provision declaring Mandela's African National Congress a terrorist group; in 1986 he voted against sanctions again and backed an unsuccessful Reagan veto of the measures. But that was before Mandela...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Oct. 5, 1998 | 10/5/1998 | See Source »

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