Word: paulas
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Some wounds have to get worse in order to get better, which helps explain how it happened that President Clinton, accused of skanky behavior toward a young employee, actually began sometime this past winter to look forward to the moment he would be hauled into court. The Paula Jones lawsuit left a deep bruise, a story that turned more purple with each passing week as it brought us Monica and Kathleen and Dolly and the whole national conversation about what kind of sex isn't really sex. And just as the pain grew most acute, when accusers were unearthed almost...
...Paula Jones was said to have been driving in her car when she got the news on her cell phone, pulled over and cried. Her family huddled in its rented one-bedroom condo in Long Beach, Calif., that afternoon. Jones' husband Steve, who has said of the President that he "hates the bastard," told TIME that "this is not over by a long shot. We'll fight until the last day. It's an injustice, a travesty." What especially galled him was the notion that Clinton's alleged behavior did not rise to the standard of sexual harassment. "If dropping...
...problem for Clinton is longer term: Paula Jones may have lost the case, but she went a long way toward winning the war about what kind of legacy Bill Clinton will carry into history. Perhaps it is easier to see now why all those bimbo hunters and Dustbusters were necessary. As a Clinton adviser put it, "Just think of what they got into the public arena. They did very well. Some of it is irreparable." This adviser, who goes back to the earliest days of the Clinton campaign, suggests that Jones' lawyers, knowing they lacked any kind of case, just...
...Leader Dick Armey announced to a group of 50 high school students -- adding that if he were in Clinton?s shoes, ?I would be so filled with shame that I would resign.? And in case anyone had any doubt, Newt Gingrich added a reminder that the dismissal of the Paula Jones suit would not impede a possible impeachment probe...
...order on gun control. "The atmosphere at the White House is very different," says TIME White House correspondent Karen Tumulty, who toured with the Clintons in Africa. "They feel they can go out and remind people what he used to do before the scandals started." That's just what Paula Jones was trying...