Word: affair
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Special prosecutor Lawrence Walsh submitted the final report on his seven- year, $40 million inquiry into the Iran-contra affair. While Walsh's report states that neither President Reagan nor Vice President Bush committed crimes, it does say that Reagan "set the stage for criminal activities by others" and that Bush was fully involved in the affair despite his public comments to the contrary...
...have Pizza Hut." Nor are the women who harassed Dr. James Sehn's wife in a McLean, Virginia, beauty parlor because he had helped reattach the offending organ known to be commandos from the National Organization for Women. In fact, the really interesting thing about the Bobbitt affair is the huge divergence it reveals between high- powered feminist intellectualdom, on the one hand, and your average office wit or female cafeteria orator, on the other...
Surrounding this clash between King and commoner is a whirl of political intrigue. There's a Fergie-like princess with a potentially explosive diary, a royal aide hiding a homosexual affair and assorted political tricksters, both dirty and deadly. Like its predecessor, To Play the King is a wonderfully savvy, supremely cynical picture of real-world politics that makes American efforts in the same vein (JFK: Reckless Youth) look like Saturday-morning cartoons. Michael Kitchen, as the King, is starchy yet appealingly human; in its fictional way, To Play the King does more to demystify the British monarchy than...
FLOYD BROWN IS BACK. He's the conservative who created the original Willie Horton ad in 1988 and made a video rehashing the Gennifer Flowers mess in 1992, and he is now covertly feeding information and hard-to-find documents to reporters and congressional Republicans looking into the Whitewater affair. Brown's associate David Bossie has been to Little Rock several times digging for dirt. Evidently some Whitewater tale tellers prefer to deal with Brown & Co., figuring Brown can be trusted to protect their sources...
...Clinton was largely silent throughout the entire affair. It had been unnerving to turn to the papers every day and see "administration officials," "sources close to the White House" and other nebulous characters responding to the charges. And the president still has not taken any initiative to help the public discern between truth and rumor...