Word: misbehavior
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...assistant principal who has dealt with adolescent behavior for nearly three decades, I have found that it is not very difficult to distinguish between those who are truly sorry for their misbehavior and those who are only sorry they got caught. Most other Americans can tell the difference too. JOHN CAPANNA Pasadena, Calif. The simple words of the Rev. Jim Casy in John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath provide meaningful commentary on the Clinton-Lewinsky matter: "There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do. It's all part...
...tries. She pungently punctures various arguments linking parental treatment to child behavior. Maybe mommy's screaming at Johnny didn't cause his misbehavior, as some scholars naively assume, but rather was caused by it. Maybe. Still, maybe the screaming made things worse. Or maybe mommy was subtly favoring Jimmy all along. How would you know for sure? The more puncturing of arguments Harris does, the more you realize that the whole issue of non-shared environments in the home is disconcertingly complex, nearly opaque to science...
...files of the Paula Jones case; a campaign-plane flight attendant named Cristy Zercher who says she was groped by Clinton but came so late to the party that her tabloid story fetched only about $50,000. But now, 11 weeks after the independent counsel began his search for misbehavior and cover-up, the scandal is finally circling back to where it began--Monica Lewinsky...
Such security measures not only made the simulation more realistic, but also kept misbehavior at a minimum...
...plays into the hands of the critics who say that the independent counsel is on a mad tear. If Lewinsky were accused of a violent crime, maybe terrorism or espionage, it might seem reasonable to apply heat to her family. But the underlying claim in this case is sexual misbehavior. At the White House, a derisive staff member summed up Starr's strategy: "Throw Momma in front of the train...