Word: affair
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hale is the best evidence to date that when it comes to adultery, the Pentagon has two standards--one applies to the powerful and another to the grunts. Flinn found herself facing nearly 10 years in jail for conducting an affair with a married civilian (and lying about it); McKinney faced a court-martial for attempting to coerce six women into sex. Last March a military jury cleared him of 18 of the 19 charges. During the month-long trial, McKinney tried to say that he was the target of overly harsh prosecution and that top officers facing similar charges...
Carpino alleges that Hale forced her into a sexual relationship in early 1997 by telling her that her husband was involved in an adulterous affair of his own. She says Hale told her he would protect his deputy from a possible court-martial only if Carpino went to bed with him. "He controlled our employability, controlled where we lived and how we lived," Carpino says. "He controlled everything in our life." She says she felt blackmailed and complied. Most of their dozens of trysts over the next four months occurred during the day at his handsome government apartment. He would...
...help pay for a lawyer and expressed a desire to marry her. She presented her husband with divorce papers last June. But the relationship between Hale and Carpino collapsed soon thereafter, she says, when Hale admitted to her that the story of her husband's affair was a lie. Carpino said she vowed then to get even, and the two began waging war on each other. Carpino's ex-husband remembers Hale's calling him to say he would help him gain custody of his son. When the colonel explained he needed to demonstrate Carpino was an unfit mother...
...successful experimental treatment by dropping his trousers in front of hundreds of astonished colleagues at a conference), Viagra merely paves the way for the possibility of arousal. Erections must still be achieved the old-fashioned way, whether through desire, attraction, physical stimulation, the guilty thrill of an illicit affair, page 27 of The Godfather or what have...
...retired G.O.P. Congressman John Schmitz, had disclosed his terminal cancer. As Mary later told a psychiatrist, she felt he had died already. "She felt she died too," says Dr. Julie Tybor Moore. Her father has always been a rock, even during his own public whipping. In 1982, an extramarital affair was revealed when his mistress (a former college student of his) brought one of their two children to a hospital after the child was injured in an accident. The hospital requested the father's name, and Schmitz--a church-and-family conservative--then watched his political career wilt...