Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...finally over. After five years and nigh on $50 million of phony, partisan investigations and more than a year of media hysteria and round-the-clock cable coverage, the scandal has finally come to a close. The Senate vote will mark an end to this ugly chapter, and congressional Democrats and Republicans will make peace and begin solving the problems of the next millennium...
Many, especially in the press, apparently feel sympathy for Hillary. She has been heralded as a tragic martyr, a victim of scandal. It is argued that she may be trapped in her marriage, that she sticks around out of duty to the country. Unfortunately, according to most sources, Bill has been consistently straying since their law school days. A more likely explanation for her current calculus, and her calculus all along, may be that she is simply unwilling to give up the fruits of her association with her husband. After all, the White House is a nice place to live...
...that the Lewinsky matter is over (sort of), the bridge metaphor may take on a new meaning: The bridge Clinton built for us was the sex-and-perjury-and-obstruction-and-mendacity scandal itself. It was one big distraction, an all-consuming diversion with its own engine. Under the bridge lay everything real--all the issues the government could have been spending time and money on instead. But for all the complaints about how the bridge was a waste, a regular government boondoggle, many millions of people escaped the reality below by coming along for the ride...
...vote marked the end of a sad saga that has mesmerized Washington and disgusted the nation for more than a year. A story of two villains--Bill Clinton and Ken Starr--and no heroes, this all-encompassing scandal has claimed many victims: Newt Gingrich, Bob Livingston, the Republican Party's approval ratings and Bill Clinton's place in the history books. The already low esteem most Americans hold for government has only fallen more. In December, after House Republicans forced two articles of impeachment through on an almost completely partisan vote, it seemed the nation was in for the nadir...
...impeachment process may have finally ended last Friday afternoon with the Senate voting to acquit President Clinton, but faculty and students remain divided on whether the scandal of the year will become a permanent punchline or a bona fide political landmark...