Word: grand
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...court generational rivalry. "I think it's kind of inspired the older players--and I'll include myself in that group--to practice harder, to maybe want it more. There's more of a sense that we don't want that 16- year-old to win a Grand Slam. It's given new life to the game...
When, however, words and memory are entirely instrumental, as they are for Clinton, truth is defined not epistemologically but politically. Days before going before the Starr grand jury, the White House was reportedly polling and floating trial balloons in the papers to determine what confession would fly. The truth is not what happened. It is what sells. And because Clinton is so good at selling, he has never needed truth as it is conventionally understood...
...intense was the desire to not have the President lie," says presidential historian Michael Beschloss, "to not break the bond of trust with the American people, it was left to others. Eisenhower never spoke an untruth." Of course, Ike was never the focus of an investigation by a grand jury, either...
Sitting on the set of Larry King Live on Monday night, I waited nervously for the President to address the nation. I had suspected for months and believed for weeks that Bill Clinton had had a sexual relationship with "that woman," Monica Lewinsky, and now, fresh from the grand jury, he was prepared to admit it to the American people. But would he take responsibility for it, own up both to his behavior and to the price his family, his supporters and the country had paid during nearly seven months of evasion...
Consider: when David Kendall, the President's lawyer, appeared on the White House lawn on Monday following his client's grand jury appearance, it wasn't justice he called for in the matter, as defense attorneys normally do, but that other, warmer, fuzzier outcome. The subtext of his word choice was unmistakable: strict, old-fashioned justice for the President might prove harsher, colder and more damaging than simply putting the whole matter behind us, in the manner of a bad romance or a quarrel with noisy neighbors. A senior Administration official quoted in the New York Times sounded a similar...