Word: affairs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...strategy seemed to be working. After publishing photographs of Hart dallying with Donna Rice and watching him admit his marital infidelity on Nightline, journalists were adhering to an informal prohibition against double jeopardy. Last spring the Washington Post confronted Hart with evidence of his having a long-running affair with a Washington woman. Hart withdrew and the story never ran. The Post decided not to name names, and nothing more is in the works. "I can't go out and find every woman he ever scaboozled," says Post Executive Editor Benjamin Bradlee. "You can't ask him every day about...
Much of the public indignation was stirred by allegations that Boesky has emerged from the affair with a large part of his huge fortune intact, even after paying $100 million as a result of the charges against him. Though his attorneys claim that he is close to bankruptcy, a lawyer who knows him well says, "I would swap assets with Boesky any time." George Reycraft, who represents Boesky's former partners in a civil damage suit, claims that the speculator took $400 million out of his firm. "We just do not have a fix on his assets," says Lawyer Robert...
...banner headlines in the English press trumpeted the Crockford's affair, Runcie offered no response to the attack. Senior ecclesiastics instantly rushed to the primate's defense, observing that he had been anything but weak in criticizing Margaret Thatcher's treatment of the poor. The essay was excoriated as an exercise of "anonymous, gutless malice" by one furious bishop. "Scurrilous," snapped the realm's No. 2 churchman, Archbishop of York John Habgood. York had his own reason to complain: he and Runcie were yoked in condemnation by Crockford's. In fact, the essay was seen as a bid to derail...
...think you're so free to become a journalist," says my father. "Is that what I paid your tuition for, so you could hang out in bushes peeping at a man having an affair?" he asked me when I worked a summer for The Miami Herald...
...This style is a much more exciting means to go about pursuing the truth because what is truth anway except what I perceive it to be. The one truth I held in high school, that of Harvard, proved to be false. I'll never have such a love affair again...