Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...attorney general should also have tighter control over the scope of future independent counsels' investigations. How Starr, appointed to investigate an Arkansas land venture, managed to get involved in the Lewinsky scandal continues to perplex many. No independent counsel should be a permanent institution; their investigations should be specific and subject to tighter and more regular scrutiny by the attorney general...
Just when the air was clearing in Washington--when politicians were finally putting aside the presidential sex scandal and moving on to Social Security and tax cuts--another woman has come forward alleging sexual misconduct by Bill Clinton. Corroboration is scant, the White House denials are emphatic, but this tale has an unpleasant new twist: it is a charge of sexual assault...
...book has touched a nerve in a society overdosed on sex and emerging from a most immodest year of sexual scandal. (Is it any surprise that sweeter days of swing dancing and Shakespeare are all the rage?) Shalit defends, at times compellingly, shame, privacy, gallantry and sexual reticence, if not virginity until marriage. Without these, she says, women have lost power, consigned to "dreary hookups" or sexual violence. "We want our 'feminine mystique' back," she writes, "and with it male honor." Sitting in a Manhattan restaurant, modestly attired in dark tights and a calf-length, buttoned-up olive shirtwaist...
...imprisoned for his role in Watergate; after a battle with diabetes; in Atlanta. Disbarred for his crimes, which included planning the break-in at the office of the psychiatrist who treated Vietnam War critic Daniel Ellsberg, Ehrlichman later wrote novels, worked at an engineering firm, and often insisted the scandal was overblown...
...Minutes devoted to the Lewinsky scandal and impeachment trial by the evening newscasts of CBS, NBC and ABC from...