Word: counseled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Back when a certain intern was still a junior at Lewis and Clark College, the Whitewater scandal broke. Attorney General JANET RENO was authorized to appoint a special counsel...
Feldstein received praise for chairing the committee from Michael Astrue, general counsel of Biogen, the Cambridge-based biotech firm, and former member of a 1988 transition team of President Bush...
...warrant his removal from office. The allegations in the articles of impeachment are laughably weak. The House impeached the president for perjury without specifying how he perjured himself; it accused him of obstruction of justice based on a selective reading of conflicting testimony garnered by the independent counsel...
...allowed to suspend our normal concerns about the justice system." But should we? Even Andrew Johnson's impeachment, which was even more politicized than Clinton's, had witnesses, giving it at least the trappings of due process. Well, as McAllister points out, in 1868 there was no independent counsel. "Ken Starr's already done all the work." As for cross-examining Starr's sources, no one at either end of Pennsylvania Avenue seems eager for the chance...
...occasions for sin that electronic technology would someday provide. About betrayal, the diverse ways in which people use and abuse the confidence of others who trust them, Dante possessed an encyclopedic knowledge and an unforgiving eye. He consigned history's fraudulent figures, including those who gave bad counsel or who spread scandal, to various folds in his eighth circle of hell. The only lower and more hideously painful depth was the ninth circle, the place Dante reserved for those who went beyond personal betrayal into public treachery...