Word: scandalizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...earnestly explores the Eastern and Western concepts of honor and duty as they play out in Kai's relations with his family, in a romance with an Asian- American heiress and especially at West Point, where Kai is recruited to uncover a cheating scandal. These plots never intersect, but with pungent humor and a subtle working of the themes of his title, Lee still manages to combine them into a powerful coming-of-age story...
...about him. Until last year, when the President fired every one of the nation's 93 U.S. Attorneys, Stephens was leading the federal investigation of House Ways and Means chairman Dan Rostenkowski for allegedly misusing his $1.3 million campaign fund, a probe intertwined with the House post-office scandal. Clinton's sacking of the federal prosecution chiefs is believed by some of the dismissed to have been a way of getting Stephens off Rosty's back. Now, though, Stephens is engaged in an even more sensitive inquiry, and this time Clinton could become a target...
...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. After becoming U.S. Attorney...
Though battered by a federal probe into his financial dealings with the scandal-ridden House post office, House Ways and Means chairman Dan Rostenkowski, one of the President's chief allies in the health-care battle, won his toughest Democratic primary yet. The victory was due in no small part to all-out help from Chicago's famed political machine and heavy campaigning by top national Democrats, from Clinton on down...
...Honda Scandal...