Word: grandness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...House of Representatives, where politics can be counted on to prevail over precedent and principle. That is why, sources tell TIME, for all his repeated promises to cooperate with the independent counsel, Clinton and his advisers have decided that he will refuse to appear in front of Starr's grand jury, will refuse to testify and will refuse to help Starr choose when, where or how the last battle is fought...
...finally confronts her on the witness stand. Every maneuver, every victory that strengthens Starr's hand, also stiffens the resolve at the White House to refuse to say a word. There are times, Clinton confidants say, when the President fantasizes about marching down to the grand jury and saying, "Go ahead. Take your best shot." But that is pure swagger: his lawyers and the President know this must never happen, because they have spun out all the elaborate scenarios for how this drama might play out and concluded that Clinton has everything to lose by talking and everything to gain...
...believed he would take a hit and move on. At the time, his political advisers couldn't imagine him refusing to talk. "The fact is, most people don't believe him already," a Clinton adviser said in February. "If he doesn't go to a grand jury, it's the kiss of death." But even by then the lawyers had taken over, and they made it clear that they had other ideas...
That may be why Bruce Lindsey and Vernon Jordan--who made his fourth appearance before the grand jury last week--could have plenty to fear. Indicting a bigger fish than Lewinsky could make it much easier for Starr to force Clinton out of hiding. Lindsey's predicament last week was particularly bad: Starr wants to question him on 19 topics, and Judge Norma Holloway Johnson has agreed. Persuading her to side with Starr against Clinton's assertion of Executive privilege was no easy job. Starr could not just argue that Lindsey had been around when all the key decisions were...
...magazine or a video game and distribute it as bits over the network to billions. At least in theory. Brilliant Digital is marketing a developers' tool kit that makes it relatively simple to cobble together your own interactive cartoons. "You don't need any programming experience," insists Cheri Grand, a company spokeswoman. "I could create a Heather Locklear character, animate her and do whatever I want with her." Traditional Hollywood studios, she notes, have lots of overhead and immense production costs. "Not us. Everything is done inside the computer." Deus ex machina. Amen...