Word: grand
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Questions Clinton confidant Bruce Lindsey visits Ken Starr's grand jury, and takes 10 White House lawyers along. Chances are someone will whisper the magic words: Executive privilege...
DIED. RICHARD CASSILLY, 70, American tenor and operatic star of the 1950s, '60s, and '70s; of a cerebral hemorrhage. A pure heldentenor, Cassilly possessed a booming, heroic voice that ideally suited grand Wagnerian roles. Debuting at New York City's Metropolitan Opera in 1970, he sang in more than 100 performances there...
...Green, a vice president of People for the American Way, says, "Betty wouldn't be an enabler or look the other way if she sensed or saw anything wrong. She would have left rather than let something inappropriate go on." When Currie says "so help me God" before a grand jury, she means it. She won't "forget" what she'd rather not remember. If she knows something awful happened in the Oval Office, everyone is right to be worried...
...just how--and why--do we know? First, because the parties in the case, the very people bound by gag orders and rules of grand-jury secrecy, are as hard put as any other human beings to keep sensational information to themselves. Second, however, because they are playing a more complicated game in which leaks have a purpose. They are leaking secrets to advance their cases, color public opinion about their clients and put pressure on other potential witnesses to tell the truth. Not all legal cases are settled in the courts, and while it is not a pretty sight...
WASHINGTON: She?s back. Monica Lewinsky, who has all but disappeared from the front pages, returned home to the Watergate late Thursday evening. Her mother, Marcia Lewis, was reunited with her daughter after two grueling days of grand jury testimony. Family attorney William Ginsburg seemed as good as ready to file a harassment suit against Ken Starr?s prosecutors: ?I wonder if they have tortured Ms. Lewis and Ms. Lewinsky enough,? he said. ?If this is the way the prosecutorial system normally operates, then all Americans should take notice. It is frightening...