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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although everyone talks about the perjury trap that Ken Starr's grand jury holds for the President, the confession trap is just as big a hazard. Still, Hatch's offer has been gaining steam in both parties all week, so much so that the White House put some questions into its weekly poll to test it. Fruitlessly, I suspect, since those polled will inevitably overestimate their capacity for forgiveness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Confession Game: Assuming It's The Truth, | 8/17/1998 | See Source »

...people have needed a vacation as much as President Clinton will in his post-grand jury state. Luckily, he has two weeks scheduled in Martha's Vineyard starting tomorrow, a day before his 52nd birthday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tomorrow's News: Tuesday, August 18 | 8/16/1998 | See Source »

WASHINGTON: This could be Bill Clinton's greatest escape yet. With Ken Starr preparing a tightly-wound perjury trap, the President's options are limited. If he continues to deny a relationship with Monica Lewinsky in front of the grand jury Monday, Starr has an armory of evidence that suggests otherwise. Now senior advisers are floating the possiblity that Clinton will admit to sex with Monica without contradicting his previous denial of the affair -- because the definition of sex he was shown in the Paula Jones case was incomplete. This legal loophole, says TIME Deputy Washington Bureau Chief Jef McAlister...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton's Testimony Trial Balloon | 8/14/1998 | See Source »

They, the grand jury. Twenty-three women and men, black and white, tramping back and forth to that small, stuffy windowless room in that federal courthouse, the one with all the cameras outside. Filing in two or three days a week, every week, for almost a year. For a measly $50 a day, plus $3 a day bus fare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Last Potato Show | 8/14/1998 | See Source »

...December bit of his own with Cybill during the shoot and after). And of course the mantra, inserted early on by John Keats via John Hillerman: "'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' -- that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know." The grand jury knows. But they ain't talking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Last Potato Show | 8/14/1998 | See Source »

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