Word: mattered
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There has been a slapdash quality to this matter ever since it landed in Congress's hands. Whatever misgivings people had about Starr's process and tactics were merely an overture to these past four weeks, in which again and again the Republican leaders signaled that they were determined to Uphold the Rule of Law, even if they had to burn it down in the process. Starr's report was published before any lawmakers had even read it, much less edited it to protect innocent bystanders. Clinton's supposedly secret grand jury testimony was released after a party-line vote...
...Parents must attend every event their child participates in--back-to-school night, plays, shows, games. The kids will say you don't need to come, but you do. It reinforces the importance of school." Just as important, he says, is keeping the day-to-day dialogue going, no matter how reluctant a child might seem. Teenagers, in particular, will seem to push the parent away. "Don't stop when your kid rejects you. Ask to see their papers and exams. The initial response to questions like 'What happened at school today?' may be 'Nothing.' You have to be persistent...
...either. It has long been thought that if they lose badly next month it would make a censure deal more likely. The bloodied Democratic leaders could storm the White House in mid-December, point to all their dead comrades and demand that Clinton accept terms that would bring the matter to a close with another apology, some fines and admission of guilt. But now Democratic leaders have their doubts. The more seats they lose in November, the more liberal the remaining Democratic caucus becomes, and thus the less likely it will be to support any leadership attempt to bring Clinton...
...story Tripp told that day--and especially the parts about Vernon Jordan's job search for Lewinsky, with its hints that Clinton was trying to buy her silence--became the basis for Starr's successful request that Attorney General Janet Reno allow him to investigate the Lewinsky matter. But according to an Oct. 4 article in the New York Times, word about the Clinton-Lewinsky connection actually came to Starr the previous week by way of a group of conservative lawyers that included Richard Porter, a partner in Kirkland & Ellis, Starr's own law firm in Chicago...
Terrifying. But who ever said privacy is a God-given right--or, for that matter, a wholly good thing...