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There was, conspicuously, no mention of perjury. Starr knows that lying about sex is not the stuff of impeachment proceedings. He is more intent on compiling evidence of obstruction: the possibility that Clinton coached secretary Betty Currie on key details of his relationship with Lewinsky, Vernon Jordan's extraordinary job search for her around the time she signed an affidavit denying a presidential affair, and the orphaned "talking points" Lewinsky allegedly handed Linda Tripp, asking her to lie in her deposition. Starr hopes to make obstruction the heart of his report to Congress, not only because it is a grave...
...clear that the intent of BostonMagazine was to try to spin their way out of thiscontroversy rather than to deal with the problemthey had created by using a racial slur on thecover of their magazine," Stith said. He saidRivers' support of the magazine is based solely onmonetary influence...
While the Wakanyeja group plans to continue performing across the country, Bedayan also said that part of the "initial intent was to have others pick up the book...
...They were really intent on stirring up troublerather than with dealing with the problems," hesaid...
With something of the same method and intent, Mamet writes about Hollywood. His plays, films and essays contain many scalding observations on mainstream filmmaking. Yet from 1981's The Postman Always Rings Twice through The Verdict, The Untouchables, Hoffa and The Edge, Mamet has written solid, burly movies for top producers and stars while pursuing a parallel career with the modestly budgeted films he writes and directs himself. "I'm really fortunate," he says. "I have some good friends and supporters in Hollywood." And he knows that part of his job as a filmmaker is "shaking money out of those...