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Mills, 33, is just the sort of hard-nosed advocate to drag such hypocrisy to the surface. She has rubbed some colleagues the wrong way--and endeared herself to the First Couple--with her scorched-earth responses to legal challenges during her six years at the White House. When a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Right Back at You | 2/1/1999 | See Source »

So you thought you'd heard the last of Ken Starr, now that the impeachment operatic drama has moved to the Senate? Think again. Starr's cameo appearance to get Monica Lewinsky to sing on behalf of House prosecutors was the first hint that he's not yet through with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Whither Kenneth Starr? | 1/26/1999 | See Source »

Both Bills have been survivors all their lives, and for now that pattern seems to be holding. Clinton's approval ratings have risen since the Lewinsky scandal broke. And Gates' personal wealth has increased over 500% since the antitrust case was filed. After months of being maligned by prosecutors, both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Tale Of Two Bills | 1/25/1999 | See Source »

Hutchinson and Rogan marched the Senate briskly through the two articles of impeachment: the President, they claimed, had obstructed justice in the Jones case, caused other witnesses to provide false testimony to Kenneth Starr's grand jury and then knowingly lied under oath in order to maintain the deception. Hutchinson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Great Disconnect | 1/25/1999 | See Source »

Many legal scholars believe the President is more vulnerable to charges that he lied about an affair than that he confected a conspiracy to conceal it. But the perjury charges do not throw open the doors to witnesses, and witnesses are what the House prosecutors want above all: witnesses are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Great Disconnect | 1/25/1999 | See Source »

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