Word: profferred
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Greenblatt claims to be too new in town to be down on this one, but he does proffer lavish kudos to the student-run Hyperion Theatre Company for their rendition of Hamlet. "It was brilliant and rivaled the marvelous production I saw several years at the ART [American Repertory Theatre]," quoth the prof...
...five major-network political talk shows. "I don't plan to be ubiquitous very long," he says. So why does he hang around Larry King's studios one day to make faces at the guests? Gnashing his teeth over Kenneth Starr's skeptical view of Monica's proffer, Ginsburg begins devouring a series of power meals that will keep him noshing from the Cosmos Club and Morton's in Washington to the Four Seasons in New York City...
...going to let her go to jail, and whose florid romantic aspirations left a trail behind her like rose petals: e-mails and phone calls, beeper pages and presents. And affidavits. Though Lewinsky swore in early January that she had no sexual relationship with the President, a later proffer to Starr reportedly admitted to just that, was vague on the question of obstruction and said nothing at all about the mysterious "talking points" she gave her friend Linda Tripp...
...could resume immunity negotiations with Lewinsky's lawyers, in which they 'proffer' Starr a peek at their client's testimony. "There Starr runs the risk of the whole thing falling apart amid criticism that he's pressuring Monica to say what he wants to hear," says Novak...
...reasonable doubt. The most senior cynics see an advantage here in the curious behavior of her lawyer, William Ginsburg: change her story often enough, and she becomes useless to Starr's case. She says in private she had sex, denies it in her affidavit, admits it in her proffer and then backs away from that. Which version will Monica offer Starr's grand jury, and what on earth would they be inclined to believe...