Word: grand
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...year ago, Arkansas state troopers reported that Starr's Arkansas team was asking them about Clinton's relationship with Jones. Then there is the omnipresent billionaire and funder of anti-Clinton investigations, Richard Mellon Scaife, whose alleged interference in Starr's Whitewater probe is being examined by a grand jury in Arkansas...
...Tripp tapes show that Tripp urged Lewinsky not to sign her Jones-case affidavit, the one denying sex with Clinton, until Jordan had found her a job. Kendall suggests that Starr, to trap the President, may have prompted Tripp to push that idea on Lewinsky. Tripp's grand jury testimony also discloses that she began cooperating closely with Jones' lawyers as early as November. By January she had already provided so much information, sources told TIME, that Jones' lawyers spent only 20 minutes with her when they went to her house on the eve of the deposition...
...into a pickup truck with them at about midnight. According to the police in Laramie, Wyo., the pair had apparently led him to believe that they too were gay. But all pretense vanished as the journey got under way. Police say the three were barely a half-mile on Grand Avenue, Laramie's main street, when McKinney abruptly pulled over and, apparently taking turns with Henderson, began pounding Shepard on the head with a .357 Magnum revolver. The pair then drove about a mile east of town and, on Snowy Mountain View Road, they dragged Shepard...
...term the canonization "problematic," "offensive" and "an attempt to appropriate the Holocaust without coming to grips with it." They see it as part of a dissonant motif in Pope John Paul II's otherwise triumphant symphony of Catholic-Jewish brotherhood--a masterwork that is very much part of his grand plan for the church's millennial jubilee...
...story intersects Stein's. According to Gumpel, Pius was about to issue his own four-page protest against the Jews' deportation when he got word of the Nazis' response to the Dutch church's defiance. He burned his own statement. Challenging Hitler overtly, says Gumpel, "would have been a grand theatrical gesture. But would it have helped the Jews? All evidence says it wouldn...