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Working from a leak from the Supreme Court, the magazine published an account of the landmark Roe v. Wade abortion-rights decision just as the court announced it. Warren Burger, who was then Chief Justice, was infuriated and demanded a meeting with TIME's editors. A group of them, including editor-in-chief Hedley Donovan, came down from New York to the Washington bureau, where I was then news editor, and we arranged a dinner in the bureau's offices on 16th Street...
Throughout the meal, Burger argued that it was unconscionable to scoop the court, that using information from clerks, whom he assumed were the source of our story, was tantamount to wiretapping the Supreme Court. Each time he launched into a new argument, he would consult a loose-leaf binder he had brought with him. In order to hide this from his dinner partners, he would rock his chair back and put his foot on the edge of our dining room table. And each time he rocked back, the Chief Justice of the United States of America advertised that...
...months later, after Harding's president chided him for criticizing the school's spending priorities in the college newspaper, he left for George Washington University in Washington. After graduating from there and then from Duke University law school, Starr clerked for then U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger until 1977. He went on to the Washington offices of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, a law firm based in Los Angeles where William French Smith, a friend of Ronald Reagan, was a partner. In 1981, when Smith became Reagan's first Attorney General, Starr left the firm--and his six-figure salary...
...quirk of history vaulted Tripp into the spotlight nonetheless. She was working in the counsel's office one hot summer day in 1993 when deputy White House counsel Vincent Foster asked her to get lunch. She fetched a burger and some M&M's from the cafeteria and became the last known person to see him alive. Later that day, he committed suicide...
...cows and feeding them to other cows. "Now doesn't that concern you all a little bit, right here, hearing that?" she asked, eliciting a roar of approval from the audience. With that, Oprah uttered the now famous words: "It has just stopped me cold from eating another burger!" Then a representative of the National Cattlemen's Beef Association conceded that, yes, there was "a limited amount" of feeding cattle to cattle occurring in the U.S. Taken together, all that had an Oprah-size impact. Cattle prices plummeted the day it aired, and kept heading south for two weeks...