Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...says the Russian president's tirade over U.S. missile strikes is equal parts bluster, envy and a little dog-wagging of his own. "On one level, he feels personally slighted about being out of the loop on the attack," says Quinn-Judge. "But like Clinton, Yeltsin has a domestic scandal of his own to contend with: his devaluation of the ruble. With the parliament calling for his resignation, a little burst of nationalist fury does not go amiss...
...When a second-rate scandal pic like this runs into the hundreds of millions of taxpayers' dollars, the era of Big Government is definitely not over yet. Barry Levinson did his for, what, $15 million? Well, at least the White House's version actually happened. Although, after watching CNN's feed of Sudanese TV on Thursday, well . . . Did anyone else spot Jon Lovitz...
...angry? Too brief? Not repentant enough? Everyone's got an opinion about Bill Clinton's five-minute mea culpa, but a sharp divide is beginning to emerge between outraged pundits and the scandal-fatigued public. "The President was angrier and less contrite than anyone had expected," says TIME Washington correspondent Jef McAllister. "Most commentators were surprised that he didn't really apologize, went out of his way to deny committing perjury and attacked Ken Starr. Many people inside the Beltway will see his performance as almost arrogant, but the public is sick enough of the whole thing to accept...
...This is a relief rally, and it won't last," he says. "Pretty soon, traders will look around and start to realize this scandal is going to get uglier before it gets better." And as the Clinton pundits' chatter dies back down, Kadlec says, the ongoing disaster in Russia -- adding to the global economy's already considerable woes -- will start to sink in. "The correction wasn't nearly deep enough. A week from now, we'll be headed right back down again...
...Martin is, as Lewinsky's spokeswoman Judy Smith says, "one of those docs who still make house calls," he only gradually gained the trust of his patients in this case. Retained soon after the scandal broke to represent Monica's mother, Marcia Lewis, he quickly devised ways of moving the women around town without notice of the camera crews, using techniques he honed as a 1980s prosecutor in the San Francisco organized-crime strike-force office. There he planned movements of such famous guests of the federal witness-protection program as Aladena ("Jimmy the Weasel") Fratianno...