Word: partisans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that our current batch of candidates ran against. For the past two-and-a-half years, we have had ideologically strong and consistent leadership at the top of the council--leadership many have attacked for creating factions where there were previously none and pulling the council down into petty partisan politics. This argument ignores completely the history of the council...
...PUCC, "golden era" of the council that the most recent crop of candidates pined for was long gone before any of them had even applied to Harvard. The council, I can recall from my days of covering it three years ago, was far more of a forum for blatant partisan politics before PUCC than after; the council chambers were a snake pit of backstabbing quasi-politicos walking around in suits and trying to look important while they planned one miserably failing social event after another...
Whatever the latest charges against her husband, he is protected by her utter loathing of the man who brings them: Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr. Hillary has always seen Starr as a deeply compromised, highly partisan enemy appointed out of political vengeance by a three-judge panel headed by conservative Appeals Court Judge David Sentelle. The Clintons have been dodging his searchlights for nearly four years now, as he rooted around old Arkansas land deals and Vince Foster's death and Travelgate and other alleged White House transgressions. The only consolation was that however much Starr tried to stretch his jurisdiction...
...shame to see Tobin's very personal, honest editorial marred by a few cliched partisan attacks. ZACHARY L. SHRIER...
...President, who a year ago campaigned on the promise of a bridge to the 21st century, who has spoken of Hope as a place both in Arkansas and in the national consciousness, was constrained by media intrigue and a year of personal and partisan scandal to a personality-less speech needling Congress on to small goals and smaller thinking. Clinton said we need to remember the big picture, but gave a speech that, from NATO to John Glenn, sounded more like a laundry list of minutiae...