Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...then try to project how history would rank each entry. Balancing the budget, presiding over the economic boom, reforming welfare, cutting crime, dragging his party to the center and preparing his people for the new century--these were seen as Clinton's key legacy items. And what of his scandal sheet, which even then was voluminous? "Our hope is that we can accomplish enough in the second term to make those allegations pale," an adviser told TIME last year. "We'd like to reduce them to a legacy footnote...
...plays the legacy game anymore. The once amusing pastime is gathering dust in some White House cupboard of the mind, because the footnote is threatening to swallow Clinton. Even if he stays in office--and it would be foolish to count him out--the scandal has ruined his Administration's crucial sixth year (typically a two-term President's last best hope for getting big things done) and perhaps his seventh and eighth as well. Clinton's bid to define his place in history--by launching the age of postdeficit politics with a small but activist domestic agenda...
...first the scandal didn't slow him down. In his riveting State of the Union address, delivered from deep inside the white-hot center of Week Two, Clinton was able to rise above the mess and outline a domestic agenda designed to help Americans navigate this time of good fortune, anxiety and change. The problem was that his spectacular performance, the wonderment of watching a master pitch his way out of a jam, obscured his message that the fruits of prosperity should be used to help those left behind. Among his proposals that night: a plan to let preretirement...
...Clinton has seemed distant this year, it's because he has been--traveling to Europe, Africa, South America and China. But with the exception of NATO expansion and the Northern Ireland peace accord, foreign policy gems have been elusive. The Monica Effect is easily overstated here--the sex scandal surely didn't influence Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's decision to ignore Clinton's pleas and detonate underground nuclear tests in response to India's--but foreign leaders are sensitive to shifts in American presidential power. Despite Clinton's warnings, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thumbs his nose...
...perfectly appropriate twist last week, defense attorneys for the Kimeses introduced Les Levine, a private investigator who has worked for both infamous sportscaster Marv Albert and one of the New York City cops accused in the toilet-plunger sodomy scandal. Levine said his mission is to find out what really happened to Irene Silverman, 82, the missing ex-dancer. "Oftentimes," he said of police, "they get so blinded by what they think are the facts that the true perpetrator happens to get away...