Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...really about time, isn't it? The President, speaking in Russia last week, said the time had come to move on from the Lewinsky scandal. The scandal has taken up a great deal of his time, after all. And his time is our time, since we elected him to run the country. Stevie Nicks and company would remind us, "Don't stop thinking about tomorrow. Yesterday's gone." And the President would like us to think that way as well...
...asking us to "turn away from the spectacle," "repair the fabric of our national discourse," "return our attention to all the challenges and all the promise of the next American century"--a series of thinly veiled imperatives, the scolding teacher again blaming us for having shown an interest in scandal, as if we had fueled the investigation. As if without us or Ken Starr, there would have been no problem...
...unexpectedly speedy delivery of the Starr report came during a day of fast-moving scandal news, and coincided with an equally surprising public display of contrition from Bill Clinton. "I let you down," the President told Democratic donors in Orlando. "I let my family down. I let this country down. I'm trying to make it right. I'm determined to never let anything like that happen again...
WASHINGTON: When Ken Starr's 36 House guests arrived Wednesday, unannounced and two days early, their Republican hosts had an understandable reaction -- lock them in a room until all the beds get made. TIME political editor Priscilla Painton says that while the two 18-box sets of raw scandal data languish in that sealed room in the Ford office building, the report looks leakproof, and "the process by which House members decide what to do with it may be as important as what...
...Lyons has shown a Clintonesque resilience in the past, rising above scandal on the strength of charisma and successful leadership. But some of his colleagues now complain that the scandal has dried up contributions to the church and that Lyons has to go -- whether or not the feds lock him up. "To drag millions of people through all this mud is a shame," said the Rev. Charles Kenyotta Tuesday. "In the 118 years of our existence, we've never had a president this dumb." Joe Lieberman would say amen to that...