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...lied, the committee agreed with the Southeastern Legal Foundation, a group of conservative activists in Atlanta who filed the original complaint, and with Judge Susan Webber Wright, the federal judge who presided over (and dismissed) Paula Jones' lawsuit against Clinton. Last year Wright fined the President $90,000 for contempt of court. The President, said Wright, "had undermined the integrity of the judicial process" when he denied in his Jones deposition that he had sexual relations with Monica Lewinsky or that he had ever been alone with her. In fact, by now it's pretty much unanimous: everybody knows that...
...Booker has proved an exception to almost every rule of Newark politics. Although he grew up in a cushy, mostly white suburb 20 miles away, he beat a 16-year incumbent in Newark. Through a series of grandiose gestures, he earned the contempt of almost every other Newark politico. But he won attention, and loyalty, from many locals who had given up on the city's notoriously corrupt political machine. "He is the most exciting elected official in Newark in the past generation," says Clement Price, a Rutgers University history professor. "He's fearless, if not reckless...
...foot dragging paid tactical benefits. In time, relations between Starr's office and the Justice Department deteriorated. Unknown to the press or public, Starr at one point came within hours of possibly losing his job--and being declared in contempt of court--because he refused to obey a secret court order to answer questions by Clinton's lawyers about grand jury leaks. Meanwhile, those lawyers had entered into "joint defense agreements" with grand jury witnesses whose attorneys had been recommended by the White House. This sharing of information gave Clinton's defenders a direct window into the supposedly secret grand...
...bullying worked. The foreign service providers "cooperated," shutting down the programmers' websites. Skala and Jansson surrendered within days, giving Microsystems and Mattel all rights in their program, thus allowing it to be suppressed. Mattel is now seeking to have the judge in Massachusetts prohibit--in contempt of the injunction Skala and Jansson agreed to--any website in the world from distributing the information Skala and Jansson developed concerning Cyberpatrol...
Sometimes he's choleric. Sometimes he's obsequious. Always he's a man lost and trying desperately to find his way through a strange country in which the natives can barely see him through their veils of contempt...