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...District Judge James Robertson last week called Starr's tactics "really scary" and today's decision bore that out opinion. The judge ruled that Starr went on "a quintessential fishing expedition," using a tax case as leverage to get information from Hubbell about possible Whitewater hush money, trampled on Hubbell's Fifth Amendment rights and violated a partial immunity deal Starr had made with him. Although Starr will appeal, TIME Washington bureau chief Michael Duffy says this stinging rebuke will follow Starr for a long time. "Starr already has reputation problems not only with the public but among his colleagues...
Laudor was seen driving away from the apartment in Costello's black Honda Civic, dropping it off in Binghamton, N.Y., to catch a bus to nearby Cornell University in Ithaca. There a campus police officer saw him, disheveled and spattered with blood. His hand bore marks that, authorities say, were consistent with defensive wounds found on Costello. A small scuffle broke out as Laudor resisted arrest, and an officer suffered a cut on her lip. In Ithaca, Laudor confessed to attacking Costello...
...bulging briefcase and waiting for his damn cell phone to ring. The reporters rushing past him on their way to the daily Monica stakeout, he knew, were missing out on a more important story. Zang is an antitrust lawyer for New York attorney general Dennis Vacco, and that briefcase bore a thick stack of documents ready to be filed by 20 states in uneasy tandem with the Justice Department's antitrust suit against the world's most powerful software company: Microsoft...
DIED. OTTO BETTMANN, 94, excavator extraordinaire of the photographic past who obsessively amassed some 5 million images in the archive that bore his name; in Boca Raton, Fla. A curator of rare books, Bettmann fled to New York from Nazi Germany, carrying with him two steamer trunks filled with thousands of rolls of exposed 35-mm film, the seeds of his fabled collection. The Bettmann Archive has belonged to Microsoft chairman Bill Gates since...
...even smug. There was once something of the wicked kid in Redford's screen character, and one fondly imagined that he would someday grow up to be, if not a dirty old man, then a subversive and obstreperous one. Certainly we never guessed he'd end up a rustic bore like Tom Booker...