Word: affair
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...organizers of the United Nations-sponsored conference on the defensive around the flash points of abortion and sex education for teens. At least two Prime Ministers from Islamic countries decided, at the last minute, not to attend, and four Middle Eastern nations announced they were boycotting the affair entirely. At the same time, the Vatican made a highly unusual personal attack on the leader of the U.S. delegation, Vice President Al Gore, for his government's prominent role in setting the agenda...
...plastic surgery. ("Was it painful?" "No, darling, it was Silverman.") A women's book club meets every week to discuss the same novel, The Bridges of Madison County. The group's leader has restyled her hair and wardrobe to look like Francesca, the farm wife who has a torrid affair in the book with a magazine photographer. The others are just as far gone. "You know, I've searched through over a hundred copies of National Geographic, and I cannot find a Robert Kincaid photograph for the life of me," says one. "Why don't they give him credit...
...independent counsel Kenneth Starr expects his investigation of the Whitewater affair to take at least a year, although he has not decided whether he will review parts of the probe concluded by his predecessor, Robert Fiske. Meanwhile, the Resolution Trust Corporation requested that a federal court enforce subpoenas for documents relating to Arkansas Governor Jim Guy Tucker, a Democrat and heavy borrower from the misbegotten Madison Guaranty S&L for his political campaigns in the early 1980s...
...suit promises to become another p.r. headache for the RTC, which has already come under scrutiny for leaks involving Madison Guaranty Savings & Loan, the Arkansas thrift at the center of the Whitewater affair. And it will get thornier if six other fence sitters join the plaintiffs. One of these, L. Jean Lewis, prepared criminal referrals on Madison that mentioned President Clinton...
...Clinton confidant) left the Administration. Deputy Treasury Secretary Roger Altman's position had become politically untenable after Democrats as well as Republicans accused him of misleading Congress about his contacts with the White House over an investigation of the Arkansas savings and loan at the heart of the affair. A day after Altman walked the plank, he was followed by Jean Hanson, the chief Treasury lawyer, who had been criticized for failing to correct misstatements she knew Altman had made in congressional testimony...