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...Opperman enjoyed a decades-old friendship with Al Gore and served as campaign-finance co-chairman for California Senator Dianne Feinstein in 1994. At a Democratic fund raiser that fall, Opperman took the opportunity to collar Bill Clinton and, as Democratic officials told TIME, asked him point-blank, "Can you get the Justice Department off my back?" Opperman recalls seeing Clinton but denies asking for a favor. He remembers how agitated he was at the time over an announcement by the Justice Department that it was exploring ways to help consumers gain cheaper online access to court opinions--a form...
...envelop the White House. Still to come, for instance, was the revelation that Hubbell had spirited Hillary's Whitewater-related records from the Rose Law Firm in Little Rock, Arkansas, to his basement in Washington. Hubbell also continued to maintain his innocence even to the Clintons, who asked him point-blank about the accusations at a meeting at Camp David. "I was in denial," he told Mike Wallace of 60 Minutes...
...taken the children. In divorce court, where she denied her adultery, she was awarded all her husband's money, leaving him with nothing but sorrow and rage. All night he hid out near the barn, and when his best friend came to do the milking, he shot him point-blank. Then he weighted himself down, waded into the river and put a bullet in his head. The ear was never recovered...
Boston College got off to the better start. From the moment Marty Reasoner announced the Eagles' presence in the first minute of the game with a pair of point-blank chances, the Terriers looked nervous and the Eagles seemed pumped full of adrenaline...
Midway through the first period, Union's Chris Ford had two point-blank shot shot on Prestifilippo, but the Harvard goalie blocked one with his chest and caught the other in his glove...