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Starr operates out of offices in Washington and Little Rock, Ark., with grand juries seated in both places. He recently seated a third in suburban Virginia, the locale of one of Tripp's taped conversations with Lewinsky. Critics charge he chose that venue because the more conservative citizens there might produce a grand jury less favorable to Vernon Jordan and Clinton. Starr's staff includes 20 lawyers who move between Little Rock and Washington as needed, plus about 20 support staff and scores of federal agents who are at his disposal. Even by the standards of Washington, a place accustomed...
...institution at the center of Whitewater. After being targeted by Starr, Smith entered a guilty plea to a misdemeanor charge of conspiring to divert government-backed loan proceeds. But he insists that lawyers on Starr's staff wrote out a prepared script for him to read before the grand jury. "It contained things I had told them time and time again were not true," he says. "Any allegation that we prepared a script for Smith to read is false," says Jackie Bennett, a Starr deputy...
...lights burned late in the Oval Office as the beleaguered President sat alone with the Grand Spinmaster and bemoaned his fate...
...Grand Spinmaster waited a moment, then nodded...
...SATURDAY The opening ceremonies will have 2,450 athletes from 72 nations and much tradition. Sumo grand champion Akebono will perform an ancient purification ritual...