Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...foundered in September when Jones demanded a full apology. By the time the Lewinsky story broke, disclosing an alleged pattern of exploitive sexual behavior by the President, the price tag had jumped to more than $2 million, a figure too embarrassing for the White House to entertain. But the legal and perceptual ground has shifted since then, mostly when Judge Susan Webber Wright ruled last month that the whole Lewinsky saga could not be admitted in the Jones case...
...operation all its own: an effort to kill Saddam Hussein. Of the 40,000 U.S. air attacks during the Gulf War, about 40 were aimed at the Iraqi leader's headquarters, residences, command bunkers and buildings he was expected to visit. Pentagon lawyers had ruled that Saddam was a legal target because he was considered a wartime military commander. But in the end it didn't matter. Saddam and his entire family came through without a scratch...
...this results in something that is not proved and is very, very private. Then the media jump on the story as if it were the start of World War III. Why expose and speculate on the private life and conversations of Lewinsky? The target should be America's sick legal system and the lack of ethics of the media. JOHN PETER HERNES Stavanger, Norway...
...only option, that is, to pay Ginsburg?s own hefty fees. After swearing off Sunday talk shows for good some weeks ago, Monica?s lawyer had mysteriously reappeared on Meet the Press and Face the Nation -- not to praise his client, but to bury her in a pile of legal bills. ?I am not being paid appropriately,? Ginsburg complained. ?Frankly, it?s difficult just to pay the costs that have been incurred in air fares, investigatory efforts and whatnot, without some assistance...
...statement, considering the high profile Ginsburg has acquired in the past month -- which should bring in more than enough cases to keep the wolf from his door in years to come. However, it seems the country?s most famous medical malpractice attorney has his eyes on the kind of legal defense fund that President Clinton has established to fight his various litigious campaigns. Perhaps aid will be forthcoming from a grateful Vernon Jordan, who received a glowing testimonial from Ginsburg: ?Mr. Jordan was very kind, very gracious and arranged some interviews with prominent companies,? said Monica?s attorney, denying...