Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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WASHINGTON: The White House has finally run out of privileges, and all the President's lawyers (except personal counsel David Kendall) are open to subpoena by Ken Starr's grand jury. The White House is already simpering that it hopes the full court will take the matter up in the fall. But now that the President is testifying two weeks hence, why should the White House or Ken Starr -- or us, for that matter -- care what Clinton's confidants have to report anymore...
...courtship between the two men has taken a more coercive turn: last week he took the unprecedented step of serving a sitting President with a subpoena in a criminal matter in which the President himself is in jeopardy. The White House said virtually nothing about the showdown except to acknowledge for the first time that Kendall had stepped up the delicate process of ensuring "the grand jury gets the information it needs." In other words, Clinton must soon decide whether to change course and capitulate to Starr's demands or stare him down in a constitutional battle that could...
...Clinton is flirting with the idea of breaking his silence, Kendall can be counted on to stay wedded to his. For this article, he refused to be interviewed, except to confirm basic biographical data. Asked for anything further, Kendall offered the answer he has practiced so often it has become a reflex: "I don't have any comment...
...technique was almost identical to Wilmut's except for two key steps. First, instead of using electric shocks to coax an adult cell into merging with a host egg whose nucleus had been removed, Wakayama injected just the adult nucleus into a nucleus-free host. And second, he let the hybrid cell sit for up to six hours before stimulating it to start dividing...
...scene takes place. As Mel Gibson's character comes to terms with impending fatherhood and Danny Glover's with impending grandfatherhood, the film wends its curious way, alternating crashes and neck breakings with scenes of limp domestic comedy--scenes that wouldn't be out of place on Home Improvement, except that Tim Allen never says lines like "This f___ing guy! What...