Word: contemptable
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...nation?s affairs. But on Thursday, Lewinsky, and the whole national ordeal associated with her, resurfaced briefly in a long-in-arriving windup order from the judge who presided over the Paula Jones sexual harassment lawsuit. U.S. District Judge Susan Webber Wright followed up her historic April contempt of court ruling against President Clinton with a monetary sanction against him: $90,686 for having provided false testimony under oath about his relationship with Monica Lewinsky in the Jones lawsuit. The money ? minus $1,202, which will go to the court to reimburse its own costs ? will be split between Jones...
...sanctions were "not imposed to punish" but rather to compensate for actual loss. Although Clinton?s lawyers said the penalty should be much lower, on the order of $33,737, they accepted the judge's ruling. "Judge Wright has always made clear that if Clinton wanted to litigate her contempt findings, he risked opening up a whole can of worms," says TIME magazine White House correspondent Jay Branegan. No one at the White House likes the contempt finding and the penalty, reports Branegan, but some Clinton supporters are saying that rather than have the country go through the constitutional crisis...
...managed to estrange Pierre from both his wife and his mistress and to bring the tax collector (played with wonderful avidity by Daniel Prevost) down on him. But in the end, for all his clumsiness, Francois proves himself the better man--warmhearted and unworthy of the contempt that has been so richly visited upon...
...sense a strain of self-contempt these days in English satire? Not self-doubt, of course, and certainly not humility, just a weary roll of the eyes that follows a glance in the mirror? So it seems with Barnes' very funny, very sour new novel, which re-creates England as a theme park on the Isle of Wight. The park is the brainstorm of Sir Jack Pitman, an overweening press lord, and his staff members, one of whom has doubts: "How do we advertise the English...a people widely perceived...as cold, snobbish, emotionally retarded, and xenophobic? As well...
...wasn't exactly impeachment, but President Clinton has finally been punished for his wrongdoing in the Monica Lewinsky scandal. Judge Susan Webber Wright ruled Clinton was in contempt of court for giving "intentionally false" testimony in the Paula Jones sexual harassment lawsuit. Perhaps more than anything, the ruling was a victory for common sense and the sanctity of the English language. The line between truth and falsehood--so obvious to most of the American people despite the efforts of the president and his legal team--has finally been affirmed by an official voice. April...