Word: grand
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bill Clinton right now: Even when he does look good in court, he can't use it to his advantage. Newly-released court documents show that the president's attorneys are beating back Ken Starr in Judge Norma Holloway Johnson's investigation into alleged grand jury leaks. But though legal victories have been few and far between for the White House lately, don't expect its spokesmen -- or Janet Reno, Starr's nominal boss -- to do any crowing about this...
NEYSA ERBLAND A friend of Lewinsky's from Beverly Hills High School, Erbland reportedly testified to the grand jury in February that Lewinsky told her that she had oral sex with the President...
BRUCE LINDSEY Investigators want to know of any role he may have played in covering up knowledge of the Lewinsky matter. According to news accounts, he interviewed numerous prospective witnesses before their appearances in front of Starr's grand jury...
Never mind how many incriminating facts Starr may have amassed or how sound the prosecutor's legal reasoning may be; once the case arrives on Capitol Hill, politics, not the law, becomes paramount. Congress is not a grand jury. Approval ratings are as important as tape recordings, sound bites as powerful as subpoenas...
...billion dollars actually get you? TV and radio news spots gave us a hint: the Chicago Bulls! Breakfast, lunch and dinner at McDonald's for the next 3,500 years! Half as much money as Michael Eisner earned in 1997! We also learned that the odds of winning the grand prize are equal to the odds of getting struck by lightning on 14 occasions in a single year and 40 times higher than the chance of getting killed falling out of bed. How these numbers compare with the odds that Elizabeth Berkely will deliver a performance anyone deems Oscar worthy...