Word: affair
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...gave Starr a fishing license to look into all sorts of activities by all sorts of hired guns. Last week the independent counsel subpoenaed two private investigators in Arkansas to explain how they came to be checking out rumors for the National Enquirer that Starr himself was having an affair with a Little Rock heiress. As it happens, the Enquirer and Bill Clinton have the same lawyer: David Kendall. But they denied any investigative duet...
...Vernon Jordan goes before the grand jury Tuesday, and it could be a pivotal moment in Starr's investigation. Jordan, after all, was the special counsel's excuse for joining the dots between Whitewater and Lewinsky -- on the grounds that Jordan was allegedly helping Clinton cover up the Lewinsky affair just as he had obtained Webb Hubbell's silence over Whitewater. If Jordan offers the slightest hint of a concerted effort to keep the former intern quiet, all well and good for Starr. If he sticks to the line given in his first public statement, the grand jury probe becomes...
Jordan's story, as leaked to the Times over the weekend, goes like this: When Jordan began trying to help Lewinsky last Dec. 8, he knew she was important to Clinton but didn't know why. He wasn't told about the alleged affair. He learned of it on Dec. 19, when Lewinsky showed up at his office saying she had been subpoenaed by Jones. He asked her if she'd had an affair with Clinton, and she said, "Never." Lewinsky has contradicted that, telling Kenneth Starr's lawyers she did confess the relationship to Jordan. Whichever version is true...
...Brown realizes that he regards a black farmer as an equal but not wholeheartedly as a friend, his self-conscious queasiness seems oddly modern. Like Owen, the author has often been confounded by his good intentions. When Bob Dubois migrates to Florida in Continental Drift and has a love affair with a beautiful black woman, Banks sets aside his gritty naturalism, and that is all we learn: she is black and beautiful. Another black woman in that book, a Haitian refugee, remains mostly a symbol of mute, heroic survival, despite chapters devoted...
...very sad that a majority of Americans think Clinton's alleged affair with a young intern isn't important. This scandal has proved that moral standards no longer exist in America. TANIA DUDZIAK London...