Word: paulas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Wednesday, Federal District Judge Susan Webber Wright threw out Paula Corbin Jones' sexual misconduct lawsuit against President Clinton. Wright, once Professor Clinton's law student, is a Republican judge appointed to the Federal bench by former president Bush. She ruled that Jones' case lacked the tangible evidence of sexual harassment and emotional distress needed to justify a trial against the President. As a result of this ruling, Jones' brief encounter with fame seems to have come to an end. She will now disappear from the political scene just as quickly as Monica S. Lewinsky burst onto...
...Paula Jones episode has been like a tornado that destroys the outlying trailer parks but spares the city. The criminal investigation it spawned, while not politically devastating, was certainly damaging...
WASHINGTON: Bad news for the White House: Ken Starr thinks he's Joe Friday. "I've always been a big believer in that show... that Jack Webb was in, 'Just the facts ma'am,'" Starr said Thursday. He was happy to use the recent Paula furor to burrow deeper into the role he relishes: That of the tenacious policeman on the trail...
...correspondent Viveca Novak. "He was never going to charge Clinton -- that's not his job. His job is to send a report to the Hill." Whether or not Republicans can muster the political will to take on Clinton is not Starr's problem, and the shrinking legal target (without Paula Jones, perjury in a weak civil case is now perjury in a nonexistent one) isn't either...
President Clinton is "pleased," Paula Jones is "tearful," and Ken Starr is just doing his job, m'am. One day after Susan Webber Wright threw out the sexual harassment suit of the decade, all of the main players have had a shot at spinning the story. For the White House, it's a fully fledged vindication of Bill Clinton that puts pressure on Ken Starr to wrap up his Lewinsky investigation. Starr insists it has "no effect on our authority." And for Jones spokeswoman Susan Carpenter-McMillan, the ruling is a travesty that declares "open season on women here...