Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...knew their faces and haircuts, noticed what they wore in court, styled ourselves legal experts after absorbing the legal terms they shouted back and forth so that come the Monica Lewinsky scandal, we knew enough to label Linda Tripp's fun with her tape recorder "entrapment." We thought television had given us a real sense of what it meant to be a lawyer...
...month Lewinsky scandal, it looks as if Bill Clinton may be spared impeachment. But one bit player whose story was sympathetic to his side, and who got caught up in the mess, may be less fortunate. Julie Hiatt Steele's lawyer has been informed by independent counsel Kenneth Starr that Steele will probably be indicted soon for perjury. The indictment is expected to charge that Steele lied under oath when she accused someone else of lying: her former friend Kathleen Willey. Willey has said she told Steele about receiving an unwanted advance from the President. Steele maintains Willey...
...fortune building parking garages. With his millions, he has tried--and failed--to win a variety of elective offices, ranging from lieutenant governor of New York to U.S. Senator as a member of, variously, the Republican, Democratic and Independent parties. Recently, he interposed himself into the Clinton sex scandal, when, uninvited, he offered to pay Paula Jones $1 million if she would drop her sexual-harassment suit against the President. A few years ago, a headline in the New York Post asked WHO IS THIS NUT? At the time, Hirschfeld owned the newspaper. Asked if he was crazy, he replied...
...both as political and as a threat to national sovereignty. What if the Cambodians, for example, suddenly wanted to extradite Henry Kissinger, charging that his direction of bombings of civilian villages during the Vietnam War constituted a crime against humanity? Or if the engineers of the Iran-contra scandal were to face an international tribunal? Being committed to justice on paper is easy. Being prepared to subject yourself to it is another story...
...Annan to know that while February's Clinton--weakened by the Lewinsky scandal, mocked for Wagging the Dog--was desperate for a way out, November's Clinton--vindicated by the elections, triumphant in the fall of Newt, fresh from diplomatic success at Wye Plantation--was this time finally prepared to use force...