Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...justice charge. Tripp's troubles -- a Radio Shack store now says it warned her that wiretapping was illegal -- may help to discredit one of Ken Starr's central witnesses. Lindsey, of course, is hardly likely to be loose-lipped. And yet their combined presence may serve to bring the scandal back to the forefront of media attention -- in the same way $75 million worth of cruise missiles helped to push it away...
...Survive Scandal, Chapter 36: Bill Clinton is keeping busy even on vacation, making a trip tomorrow to Worcester, Mass., for a photo-op that will also let him address school safety and juvenile crime. CNN will hover, and Clinton will try very hard not to think about the elephant that is Ken Starr's investigation...
...readers become editors themselves, making judgments not about what they can find out but about what they want to know. "The general discourse had been getting cruder and cruder," observes Judith Martin, a.k.a. Miss Manners. "Privacy and discretion had almost disappeared from the general public usage before the scandal. Now that the salacious nosiness has been carried to this logical conclusion, there's been a reaction on the side of propriety. Now, this is a society that has had nonstop television confessions for 20 years, people vying to get on and reveal everything they can. With this story, what...
While Washington continues its obsession with Bill and Monica's dirty laundry this week, it's time for the rest of us to focus on a different kind of sex scandal. I'm talking about the epidemic of sexually transmitted diseases--everything from genital herpes to HIV to human papillomavirus--that is ravaging the U.S. and has taken a particularly harsh toll on teenagers. Things have got so bad that researchers from Johns Hopkins University last week called for routine screening every six months of all sexually active teenage girls for infection with Chlamydia trachomatis, a germ that can inflict...
...Hillary Clinton to play the loyal wife that anyone who thinks she might also be a loving one is dismissed as a gullible dupe. To many viewers, Hillary's full-throated defense on the Today show in January, in which she blamed her husband's enemies for the scandal, was pure spinning for her man. But it was easy for her to believe that the same amalgam of right-wing moneymen, zealots and Clinton haters who had launched investigations into (and made movies about) whether Vince Foster was murdered could be behind a starstruck groupie suddenly in the clutches...