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Why don't you use the trivlist environment?  It should do what you want.
\begin{trivlist}
\item[where]
...
\end{trivlist}
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If for some reason you don't want to try that then try this: to get
the text indented use the trivlist.

\begin{trivlist}
\item[]
...
\end{trivlist}

to get the "where" on in the left margin try marginpar (I don't really
like this, because of cost).  You could also try \noindent\llap{where}
(I don't really like this because you using latex any more)
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Finally you could use the tabular environment with the p option.
\begin{tabular}{lp{dimen of some size}}
...
\end{tabular}

(I don't like this as it is expensive; you have to choose the size; you
will mess up page breaks)

so what should you do?  use the first example given.

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>2. I need to typeset a table with some of the entries rotated. Can I do
>this with LaTeX?

no.
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