Word: explainations
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Janet Reno's parents were both newspaper reporters. Her brother Robert is a columnist. So it's fair to suspect she has a journalist's instinct in her blood. That could explain what it was that got her last week to jump-start her department's investigation of campaign fund raising: sheer fury at being scooped. Earlier this month she read in the Washington Post that $120,000 in "soft money" solicited by Al Gore for general party activities last year had somehow found its way into "hard money" accounts that financed individual campaigns. Reno was outraged that reporters...
Taken together, these two reasons might explain why the most successful part of the University fund is the interfaculty initiatives, which serve the different schools more directly. Not only is it easier to raise money for the particular programs, but they involve-rather than compete with-the various schools...
...that they die.") Like most amusing online spore, it flew around the Net, causing a number of people to E-mail Cassell their thanks. One of them became Cassell's live-in girlfriend. "So I guess you could say AOL changed my life," he admits. Which might explain why he doesn't do the obvious: cancel his subscription...
...Business section in 1994. Since returning to TIME, Ratnesar has taken on some sticky issues, including the debate over "whole math." Says senior editor Howard Chua-Eoan: "Romesh has the amazing ability to breathe life into the most densely technical of stories." He's also been assigned to explain one of the pending complexities of the information age: digital TV. In that case, youth helps--he's not too old to understand...
...century ago. It is hardly as though he needs to read Hamlet again; he can recite the role from memory and has no current plans to perform the lead, having already done so twice in the past 12 years to warm reviews. Yet, for reasons even Kline cannot quite explain, he chooses to keep Hamlet handy at all times. Ever the dutiful student, the star of the forthcoming movies In & Out and The Ice Storm approaches his 50th birthday on Oct. 24 with the tenacity of a young actor still in search of answers. "It changes every time you read...