Word: commentating
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...audience to the spectacle was more entranced than the G.O.P. lawmakers on Capitol Hill, who shared the general belief that when your opponent is shooting himself in the foot, you don't get in the way. Early on, the Republican leadership spread the word to members not to comment or get involved in the scandal lest they lend credence to the idea that this is just another Republican attack. "We're trying to keep the fruitcakes under control," said one G.O.P. staff member. "For us it's better if this thing drags on for a while," the staff member joked...
Willey still lives outside Richmond, Va., and has refused any comment to the press. Mild public interest in her case was easily overwhelmed last week by the uproar over Monica Lewinsky. But the first story has become an integral part of the second. Among the directives in the mysterious written "talking points" that Tripp says Lewinsky passed along to her is one that proposes, "You now find it completely plausible that [Willey] herself smeared her lipstick, untucked her blouse, etc." If Kenneth Starr is able to determine that this stage direction was an inducement to perjury on the President...
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...increase has already been reviewed by the University's Faculty Advisory Committee on Affiliated Housing and will go through a period of public comment before taking effect on July...
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