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...single mystery of the White House sex scandals--not who did what to whom, not who leaked what and why--compares to the paradox that has been driving commentators and Republicans crazy. Why doesn't Bill Clinton just go down in flames? Week after week the charges get thrown against him, but his approval ratings mostly stay high or go higher. At this point he's the bumblebee of American politics. By every rule of aerodynamics, he shouldn't be able to fly. All the same, he does...
Gale is thought to have thrown a chair through the thick plate glass window of the Green Building before he supposedly jumped. Students in East Campus Dormitory across form the Green Building heard the breaking glass...
...ruling reinstates the case of oil-rig worker Joseph Oncale--earlier thrown out by an appeals court--against Sundowner Offshore Services, a Houston firm that drills for oil in the Gulf of Mexico. Oncale had worked on offshore rigs before (and does today), but says he never encountered such abusive treatment as when he signed on with Sundowner in 1991. He claims, for instance, that three male co-workers held him down in a shower and shoved a bar of soap between his buttocks. One of them threatened rape, he says. He quit and later was found to have posttraumatic...
...short term, Drudge's chief source of support is that he has AOL in his corner. The forces of Steve Case, who pays $3,000 a month for the Drudge Report, moved Wednesday to have the suit thrown out on the grounds that they cannot be held responsible for its content. If that motion succeeds, the Web will remain a safe haven for rumor, gossip and innuendo, but Drudge could still be personally liable for what he actually said...
...voice was the authoritative tone of TIME; there were no bylines.) TIME Edit had a large staff that was in constant contact all week through meetings and story conferences and fact-checking sessions. People had some time on their hands at the beginning of the week and were thrown together in a late-night crisis atmosphere at the end of the week. All the writers and editors were male; all the researchers and secretaries were female. No wonder there were so many wedding invitations and mortifying scenes in the halls...