Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...outraged" by Clinton's behavior, but added that Starr lacked all sense of proportion. "He's trying to get Clinton by shocking the sensitivities of the public. There very well may be a snap-back reaction to this." California Democrat Zoe Lofgren said that for all the stomach-turning detail, Clinton doesn't appear to have crossed the bar for impeachment. "If you look at the supporting evidence, it's kind of shaky [on obstruction and tampering]. It's really about sex and lying about sex," she said...
...have Mr. Starr's report (Mr. Starr, now there's a whole other concept) giving a grateful populace such detail about the President's sexual encounters with Ms. Lewinsky that we hardly know how to thank him. How nice. I'm certainly glad that's been established beyond a reasonable doubt...
...difficult to prove--especially when the witness is as skilled at evasion as Clinton--it is questionable whether any of these misleading statements could be grounds for impeachment, as the prosecutor claims. And there is reason to recoil at some of Starr's tactics; he included far more sexual detail than was necessary to prove his point, and at times ignored or discounted evidence that contradicts his case. Still, many Americans--even those who have long assumed Clinton was lying--will be appalled by the depths of the President's recklessness and deceit. Others will say, Tell us something...
...irreducibly human facts of the case, as detailed in Kenneth Starr's report, are liable to be lost as readers weigh competing legal claims or gasp at the long train of sexual detail. Of course, the report tilts heavily toward Monica's side of the tale, the President having declined to discuss the relationship with any specificity--an unaccustomed act of gallantry, perhaps. Even so, we know enough of his role to give this one passage from the report particular poignancy: "Whereas the President testified that 'what began as a friendship came to include [intimate contact],' Ms. Lewinsky explained that...
That was a great special report [TO OUR READERS, Aug. 31]. Your issue provided insight into the internal struggles facing the First Family. The amount of detail was overwhelming. Thanks for getting close to the action. MERRILYNNE HENDERSON Moreno Valley, Calif...