Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...American. Some may suggest that the importance of this scandal escapes me because I am a foreigner. But I live here, I study here and I love this country for all the opportunities it is giving me. And it saddens me to see what America has come to. I can no longer stand idly by while the impeachment process takes place. I want to speak my mind. I want to defend the President...
...moral authority to govern. Who are we to talk about morality? We are destroying a family. For reasons I do not quite understand, we are allowing the press to turn this private matter into a national crisis. We are allowing the people in office to use this scandal as an opportunity to play political games. We are watching a family fall apart. And what are we doing? Certainly not asking for it to stop, but condemning the President for his lack of morals. It's more than a little hypocritical. Ada S. Polla '99 is a joint concentrator...
...time for a work slowdown. The First Lady may not be able to save the President the way she saved the candidate, but she surely will hurt him if she doesn't stand by him once again, and not like some potted plant. Within days after the Lewinsky scandal broke, Hillary was on the Today show shouting her husband's praises. But for weeks now, there have been only perfunctory remarks during icy cameo appearances, bad body language and her failure to refer to the President with her usual "my husband" at a Moscow event...
...shelf life of scandal, even presidential scandal, is not indefinite, and after such hypersaturation, Americans may find themselves not only ultimately bored by the Clinton-Lewinsky affair but also indignant at Kenneth Starr's sadistically detailed report. Americans may conclude it was not necessary for Starr, in order to make his legal point, to engage in such a pornographic narrative...
Leading the team, while reporting from one of the best Rolodexes in Washington, was bureau chief Michael Duffy. "For eight months the full story of this scandal has remained in the hands of less than half a dozen people," he says. "That changed dramatically on Friday, and it will take weeks, if not months, for the country to process what it has learned...