Word: grand
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When he decided three weeks ago to testify before Kenneth Starr's grand jury, Clinton was agreeing to make three of the hardest speeches of his life: to his wife and daughter, to the grand jury and to the rest of us. Before that was over, the Commentariat would also need to be fed, to satisfy its hunger for a story line with drama and pathos and a denouement, perhaps a body or two, certainly some blood and guts. By last Sunday, when the speech was nearly at hand and the predictions were buzzing like cicadas over the capital, there...
...might like to think he's safely back in the bully pulpit. But events Friday seem to be conspiring to remind him that l'affaire Lewinsky is very much still a work in progress. In fact, the whole gang's here: Bruce Lindsey looks set to return to the grand jury, his first appearance since the Supreme Court took his attorney-client privilege away. Reports are emerging that Monica's testimony conflicts with Betty Currie's, which could lead to one or both of them being recalled. And Linda Tripp is back in the news as her wiretapping case...
...long way from Afghanistan to Detroit, Jersey City and Brooklyn. But that's the route a federal grand jury says Osama bin Laden's money took when the exiled Saudi millionaire started funding Islamic extremists in the United States. According to counterterrorism officials, the New York jurors handed down a sealed indictment for Bin Laden as long ago as June -- two months before he became the prime suspect in the African embassy bombings...
When a county grand jury in Boulder, Colo., finally gets around to looking at the JONBENET RAMSEY murder, high on its list of witnesses is likely to be FLEET WHITE JR., a wealthy oilman, and his wife PRISCILLA. The Whites, former neighbors and close friends of JOHN and PATSY RAMSEY, were the hosts at a Christmas dinner for the family the night JonBenet was killed and were among the last to see the six-year-old alive. The next day, White was among the first people summoned when Patsy discovered her daughter was missing, and he was close by John...
...otherwise touch her. He could reply that she was the cause, or at least the active partner, while he was merely the passive receiver, but that makes him seem like either an implausibly shrinking violet or a very cool customer. Beyond all that, Lewinsky's secret grand-jury testimony may simply be so detailed and explicit that it leaves no room for loopholes...