Word: lip
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After seven months of lies, deception, frivolous legal maneuvering and constant attacks on independent counsel Kenneth Starr, Bill Clinton thinks all he has to do is bite his lower lip, confess and tell Americans it's time to move on [SPECIAL REPORT, Aug. 31]. We simply cannot abide by a standard that says it is O.K. for a President to engage in an extramarital affair inside the White House with a 21-year-old intern, lie under oath and then engage in sidetracking the inquiry seeking to uncover his wrongdoing. We cannot, as a nation, afford to remain indifferent...
...Utah Senator Orrin Hatch responded to the speech with outrage at the President's attack on the independent counsel. G.O.P. Congressman Bob Barr, a committed Clinton opponent who sits on the House Judiciary Committee, mocked the President's act of contrition. "It was all a charade," Barr insisted. "The lip biting and the hangdog look were all part of an act." A better barometer was Illinois' Henry Hyde, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, where impeachments originate. Hyde said that until Starr turns over a report to Congress, "we simply should not speculate about how the House would proceed." Implied...
...think the administration has been trying tomake amends in sending out communications toalumnae," Naiman said. "I think they will at leastpay lip service to what is expressed...
...beret. In hiring a spokesman, Kenneth Starr was hoping we'd forget that picture of him smiling insipidly in his driveway while holding a black plastic bag of garbage. The President hopes that pictures of him toasting world leaders will replace the picture of him chewing his lower lip while being evasive about Lewinsky. And why did Linda Tripp show up at the grand jury with not only a makeover but also her two children? She wants the picture in our minds to be of a mom. Gypo Nolan, the character Victor McLaglen played, may have been...
Your report was right on. For me, lately, graduate school has become more about lip liners and short skirts than education and intelligence. Although I will probably continue to watch Ally McBeal, you made me stop and think. KATIE OSTLER Boston...