Word: scandalizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Favela, 10, a fifth-grader in Pacific Palisades, Calif., got the Monica Lewinsky story on MTV news. "They said this lady accused Clinton of a sex scandal, like Paula Jones. I was shocked." Well, what exactly is the President accused of, Max? "He, like, raped a woman." Unsure of his answer, he confers with his friend Josh. "A sex scandal," Max now clarifies. "Having sex with a lady, and she comes back later and accuses him. Now he's in big trouble...
Maybe this is our last, best hope: that the Washington game of catch-them-with-their-pants-down is so wretchedly dark and low that the high road by comparison comes to seem a bright and shining path. Or that scandal has become so common that it's passe to kids...
...first week of the scandal came to a close, we decided to stick with a cover story on the Pope in Cuba. Teachers thanked us via E-mail. Only one child wrote in requesting the story ("We all know about it, and would be excited if you wrote about it in the next issue...
...Week Two, the scandal was harder to ignore. Surely by now many of our readers had begun to wonder, "Who is Monica, and what did the President do with her?" Others may have been puzzled by their parents' hanging on to the President's boring old speech on Tuesday night...
...President manage to turn his gaze overseas often enough to protect U.S. national interests? Nervous foreign governments are wondering how much clout the leader of the free world can still wield, and how fast it might drain away in the bloodletting over Interngate. As Administration officials tell it, the scandal posed no problem. And to make the point more emphatically, officials say, "He certainly has no trouble concentrating on issues of war and peace." In other words, Clinton is thinking very carefully about whether to bomb Iraq and punish Saddam Hussein for defying U.N. arms inspectors...