Word: grand
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...waiting on the clientele. "I thought she might be a snob at first when she was a customer," recalls Jason Lord, one of her many college-age co-workers, "but she was a very good person." Kenneth Starr certainly considers her an asset, granting her immunity before her grand-jury testimony. That will insulate her from perjury charges for any lies she may have told in her deposition to Paula Jones' lawyers and may help protect her from prosecution in connection with any financial or tax improprieties. All she has to worry about now is making ends meet...
...Lyons, minister of St. Petersburg's Bethel Metropolitan Baptist Church and head of the powerful National Baptist Convention, USA, says he is one of them. While he admits moral lapses, he says the 82-page arrest affidavit served on him on Ash Wednesday, full of charges of racketeering and grand theft, is the devil's work. In the only interview since then, Lyons, 56, told TIME he was a man at peace--"I can sleep comfortably again"--and ready to fight. "My daddy was a strong Baptist deacon and he gave me this good name. It doesn't mean trickster...
That portrait is real, all right, in places like Nigeria, Somalia, Burundi, Sudan, Kenya. But it is no longer the whole picture. Academics, diplomats and bankers who do business there talk seriously these days about an African renaissance. A grand word, it turns out, for the slow, fragile, difficult changes that are giving the continent a second chance. But the description fits. Out of sight of our narrow focus on disaster, another Africa is rising, an Africa that works: the Africa of Mozambique and Mali and Eritrea and Ghana, of South Africa and Uganda, Benin and Botswana, Ethiopia, Ivory Coast...
...also received a letter from the U.S. Attorney in Manhattan asking them not to question a key witness about "any matters involving the Democratic National Committee [or] the Clinton/Gore Election Committee...because it could harm the active, ongoing criminal investigation." Investigators say the letter shows that the New York grand jury has targeted an alleged scheme in which Democrats would direct campaign contributions to Carey in return for contributions to state Democratic parties out of Teamster union funds...
...Lindsey was her White House contact about her relationship with the President, and he was the person she called when she was subpoenaed by Jones. Lindsey, for his part, has maintained a characteristic silence in the face of the charges. This time, it's not entirely his doing: his grand jury testimony two weeks ago was halted when the White House asserted that some of Lindsey's conversations with Clinton were protected by Executive privilege...