Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...credible case against Clinton he must go beyond sex to prove a pattern of obstruction. Sources tell TIME that the prosecutor appears to be close to wrapping up just such a case and reporting it to Congress. "Starr has enough to send up to the Hill," says a lawyer familiar with the case. After gathering documents, E-mail and testimony from Lewinsky's confidantes, Starr and his deputies may have gathered sufficient corroborating evidence to prove that what Lewinsky said in her tape-recorded conversations with Linda Tripp was more than a smitten woman's fantasy: that Lewinsky...
Even without Lewinsky's direct testimony, the lawyer says, Congress will have strong circumstantial evidence that suggests Clinton oversaw Lewinsky's job search and tried to coach the testimony of a potential witness, his secretary, Betty Currie. But it is difficult to imagine Congress moving to impeach a wildly popular President with nothing more than tantalizing but indirect facts. Which is why Starr has set his sights on two eyewitnesses whose testimony could seal the case. One of them, a key source tells TIME, is a Secret Service agent who has told colleagues he saw Clinton and Lewinsky...
...victimized?" After all, he notes, "this kid had made threats at school and pulled a knife," referring to reports about Mitch. "The sad part is that no one listened." In a statement from the family, read by Val Price, the public defender who appointed himself Drew's lawyer, Pat and Dennis Golden said they "would like to explain the situation and make it clear for everyone and to take away the pain for everyone, but they simply cannot. They, too, cannot understand, and they, too, are asking why Andrew, their 11-year-old baby, is allegedly involved...
Both Maureen and Steven signed a clinic consent form directing that any unused embryos be donated for research. But a month before she sued Steven for divorce, Maureen told the hospital she didn't want the embryos destroyed. Her lawyer, Vincent Stempel, points out that she had surgery to create the embryos, while her ex-husband only donated sperm. "She went through a lot of physical pain to have these eggs extracted," he says. And, he notes, they may represent her last chance of becoming a biological mother...
...reason an aspiring professor in the humanities may have difficulty convincing her parents that she doesn't want to be a doctor or a lawyer is that the job market in fields such as philosophy, English and Classics is tight and these disciplines are often viewed as aloof from the rest of society...