Word: prosecutor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...biggest thrill of his life was seeing his letters printed in the papers during his murderous spree. "That actually encouraged him," says Ressler. Rolling admitted in a Gainesville court that one reason he committed the slayings was that he wanted to be a "superstar in crime." Says Florida prosecutor Rod Smith: "It's frightening if someone who craves attention can get so much by doing something so horrible. How many others out there with meaningless lives are looking to get their 15 minutes of fame...
...worked; at a "town meeting" in Nashua, a woman remarked that she thought Whitewater was for rafting and canoeing. But back in Washington the Administration was in a worsening bind, facing congressional hearings about Whitewater and the near-certainty of further revelations and unable to stop either. Special prosecutor Robert Fiske subpoenaed a 10th Administration official, senior adviser George Stephanopoulos, possibly to ask him what he may have said about Whitewater in phone conversations with Deputy Treasury Secretary Roger Altman. As for congressional hearings, Clinton knows they will become a highly partisan circus. But the prospect nonetheless puts...
...dogged her all the way to the Olympics and back: Did she have a hand in planning the assault on Kerrigan? For her part of the bargain, Harding will pay a $100,000 state fine, make a $50,000 donation to the Special Olympics and reimburse the Multnomah County prosecutor's office for $10,000 in court costs. In addition, she must perform 500 hours of community service, undergo a psychiatric evaluation and spend three years under supervised probation, which restricts her movement to the three West Coast states. Finally, Harding was ordered to quit the U.S. Figure Skating Association...
Rigor is certainly what Clinton can expect. Stephens, 47, is a lifelong Republican with impressive academic and prosecutorial credentials. After a boyhood on an Iowa farm, he studied at Harvard College and Law School and at Oxford. He spent a brief time in private practice, became an assistant special prosecutor in the Watergate scandal under Leon Jaworski and rose steadily through top-level posts at the Justice Department and White House. During one tour, he was Ronald Reagan's deputy White House counsel, the job the late Vincent Foster held under Clinton at the time of his death last July...
...despite the Watergate-like presence of a prosecutor, a round of subpoenas and even the resignation of White House Counsel Bernard W. Nussbaum, the affair is a tempest in a teapot, professors...