Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Americans are having trouble coming to terms with President Clinton's latest crisis. After two full days of the Monica Lewinsky scandal ? dubbed "Zippergate" by Geraldo Rivera; "Fornigate" and "Interngate" by others ? few can yet discern whether this is history as tragedy or as farce. The mood across the country is a mixture of shock, disbelief, amusement and outrage...
...only person in the country, apart from her parents, who actually cares about Monica," William Ginsburg told CNN. It may be nothing more than a legal tactic ? make the public sympathetic to his client. But amid the determined silence from other leading players in the scandal ? Clinton, Tripp and Lewinsky herself ? Ginsburg's indignant quotes seem likely to be devoured by a hungry public...
Implausible as it may seem amid the clamor of scandal, President Clinton this week managed to launch a mechanism for restoring the Mideast peace process. The key to Clinton?s proposal to break the deadlock is breaking up the Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank and Palestinian security measures into a series of reciprocal phases. That would delay final status negotiations until both sides? compliance with their undertakings restores a measure of mutual trust, says TIME State Department correspondent Dean Fischer...
...McCurry is not only earning his pay this week, he might consider running for office when this is over. His daily jousts with the sound-bite-seeking White House press corps have become the most consistent pleasures of this scandal, and he's survived them, integrity intact, by keeping his believability and that of the President (and of his legal team) in separate rooms. McCurry is unafraid to plead ignorance, or to blame the lawyers when legalities nudge him out of the loop...
...McCurry; he wouldn't touch that one. That's why he's fun to watch: he's not slimy. He never wriggles, he never answers any question twice, and he doesn't take any guff from Sam Donaldson. And he knows how to work a room; Thursday, with the scandal in full swing, what were McCurry's first words to the packed briefing room? "Let's see, what do you want to talk about today...