Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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These overseas tests and humiliations are coming at a time when Clinton has been cast as a lame duck at home--spurned by his party, insulted by his opponents, dogged by scandal every day. He has never seemed so alone. All in a rush last week, the President was thwarted by congressional Democrats, who rejected his full-court press for "fast track" authority to negotiate trade deals, and embarrassed by Republicans, who refused to pay America's $926 million debt to the U.N.--at the precise moment Clinton was trying to put together a U.N.-backed coalition against Saddam...
...heartbreaker at East Carolina--its sixth defeat in nine games. Still, as the players, coaches and boosters boarded the Southern Airways DC-9 in Greenville, N.C., there was the feeling of promise, as well as of escape from the winless seasons of '67 and '68 and a subsequent recruiting scandal that had got Marshall thrown...
...credit, there is no old-fashioned, romantic heterosexual love in the original Midnight. Its most interesting and lovable characters are con men, hustlers, drag queens and witches. Berendt's narrator revels unrepentantly in Savannah's decadence and its culture of closeted scandal. He falls in love with the city's roguishness, its peculiar brand of dark but endearing degeneracy cloaked in gentility. In short, he is nothing like Cusack's dippy, sententious young idealist. The closest he comes to romance is a date with a drag queen. And he certainly bears no resemblance to the late Elvis Presley, whom Cusack...
...influence the granting of exceptions under the rules for burial at national cemeteries because of political or fund-raising considerations," said White House special counsel Lanny Davis. Indeed, the record shows the only burial exemptions the President made were for spouses of soldiers. Perhaps this is one Clinton scandal with a particularly short life span...
While Michaud said she is not "totally convinced" about the salutary effects of scandal-probing journalism, she said, "Maybe it's not as bad as we think...