Word: jails
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Clinton will admit to sex with Monica without contradicting his previous denial of the affair -- because the definition of sex he was shown in the Paula Jones case was incomplete. This legal loophole, says TIME Deputy Washington Bureau Chief Jef McAlister, "presents Clinton with a potential 'get out of jail free' card...
...time she had finished, it was enough to get her what she wanted most: a gold-plated GET OUT OF JAIL FREE card for herself and her mother. And within 48 hours Starr's team had what it wanted too: the leverage to force the President of the United States to promise to tell the grand jury the Whole Truth about his relationship with Monica; and the dark blue, high-necked dress--which turns out to be from, of all places, the Gap--that might prove whether he actually does...
...panel expressed concern about the company's Living Trust Maker--2.0 software, which has sold 175,000 copies nationally. Panel chairman Mark Ticer, whose group mostly prosecutes individuals, sees the proceedings as upholding the law, not lawyers. "Ninety-nine percent of the people we deal with should be in jail," he asserts...
Last week a Khamenei-controlled court sentenced Gholamhossein Karabaschi, Tehran's reformist mayor and a Khatami ally, to five years in jail on corruption charges. The missile test "could be yet another example of the hard-liners' moving to undermine Khatami," says Kenneth Katzman, a Congressional Research Service expert on Iran...
...milder form--the surreality and edge of his earlier work. Based on an Elmore Leonard novel, Maximum Bob stars Beau Bridges as a colorful, corrupt judge in a small Florida town. He's the kind of guy who will avoid paying his ex-wife alimony by putting her in jail. Amusing, smoothly put together and featuring a likable cast, this summer series augurs well for Sonnenfeld's next (and very curious) TV project, a revamped Fantasy Island, which has won a place on ABC's fall schedule...