Word: affair
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Additionally, if the Lewinsky affair inspires a vigorous public debate about the responsibilities of the media when covering rumors of scandal and about the appropriate balance of our expectations regarding the public and the private lives of our elected officials, then perhaps situations like our current one can be avoided in the future...
Clinton, Jordan and Lewinsky could all be charged with suborning perjury--encouraging a witness to lie under oath--and obstruction of justice. Lewinsky has reportedly said on tape that Clinton and Jordan tried to get her to lie about the alleged affair. Both men have denied it. Here too, much depends on whether Lewinsky testifies against them. Starr might have trouble getting a conviction for suborning perjury if all the principals agree it didn't happen. And again, much would turn on context and precise words. If the two men just gave her general advice to be discreet--not advising...
Last week America learned there was probable cause to believe the President betrayed his wife, his daughter and his country. Whether or not it is finally proved that he had an affair with a 21-year-old intern and then tried to cover it up, he behaved irresponsibly enough to enable prosecutors to expand what started out as an investigation of an Arkansas land deal into a fishing expedition for intimate details of his daily--and nightly--life...
...course, some thought that the affair with the intern might be a setup or hallucination. Those who credited the story separated into two camps: 1) those who don't think it matters much (a man's sex life is his business; a President's conduct of the office is the only legitimate concern, and anyway, maybe it is good macho sociobiology for a leader to chase girls); and 2) those enraged by the irresponsibility and arrogance implicit in such behavior--if it happened...
...America's love affair with color television edges toward its silver anniversary, manufacturers are hard at work on the next generation of eye-popping, high-resolution, wide-screen sets...