Word: paulas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lawyers put forward at a news conference that very afternoon, when they tried to argue--once again--that lying did not necessarily constitute perjury. Monica's recollections of their activities would clearly fall under the definition of sexual relations, which the President denied having in his deposition for the Paula Jones case. So the President's lawyer, David Kendall, offered this explanation last week: "It may well be that people's recollections differ. That does not necessarily mean that one is lying...
...secret sex appendix, a Starr ally told TIME. But because the President lied so long and hard, the report maintains, Starr had no choice but to include the particulars that proved that, despite Clinton's parsing of the term and even by the tortuous definition used in the Paula Jones deposition, Clinton and Lewinsky had sex, and Clinton lied to cover...
...evasions since January. Perhaps more importantly, there's a whole nest of legal ramifications should the President publicly admit that he lied under oath. Ken Starr's grand jury is still in session, for one. Whatever deal Congress makes, Starr could still indict Clinton after he leaves office. Paula Jones, too, would be blissfully happy with an admission of perjury. It could help reopen her lawsuit and pave the way for a hefty out-of-court settlement. One way or another, legal fees are going to feature heavily in the President's future...
Until last September, no one in Santa Paula, Calif., had. That's when the tiny (pop: 27,000) farm community, about 65 miles northwest of Los Angeles, decided to integrate its college-prep and "general" education students so that slow, average and accelerated learners would sit side by side. It is a bold experiment. Segregating students by ability--a vintage classroom organizational tool known as "tracking" or "ability grouping"--is practiced in at least 80% of U.S. high schools, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. But in Santa Paula, anger at the grouping system had smoldered for decades...
...district hired superintendent William Brand, who had helped eliminate tracking in Escondido, Calif. Brand immediately set out to do the same at Santa Paula High School. But he faced resistance. Virtually the entire English department opposed the change, claiming that mixing high-achievers with average students would force the curriculum to be "dumbed down." Calls from angry or worried parents flooded Brand's office. "They thought the world was ending," he recalls...