Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Lewinsky-Willey debacle, feminists have been charged with crawling into bed with the President (metaphorically, of course), and with being reluctant to get out as long as their interests are being served. In response to the claim that feminists have been hypocritical for continuing to support Clinton through these scandal-ridden months, the founder of Ms. magazine, Gloria Steinem, wrote an op-ed in the New York Times (March 22) called "Feminists and the Clinton Question." In it, she defended herself and the rest of the feminist movement...
...gambit Tuesday, it was unfavorable. But the President knows well that the press's attention span -- like that of the American public -- is famously short. By the time the months of closed-door legal wrangling are over, the Nixonesque ugliness of the move, like every other aspect of the scandal, may eventually become matter-of-fact...
...silence her in the Jones case." That leaves Starr with an unpleasant choice: forwarding to Congress what looks like a circumstantial case of obstruction of justice, or testing the widespread assumption that lying about sex is not an impeachable offense. Which would leave Clinton where he started: facing a scandal-battered but still supportive public and confronting whatever it is inside him that triggered this mess in the first place...
...politicians, lawyers and media people blame the function of a special prosecutor for the current presidential scandal [CLINTON'S CRISES, March 2]. The special prosecutor's role is to determine the truth, with no interference from any person, not even the President. Elected representatives, Bill Clinton and every other American ought to proclaim, "Regardless of the outcome, we have the best system in the world." DON BRANDON Sherwood Park, Alta...
...While the trip will be a welcome respite from scandal-obsessed Washington, TIME correspondent Marguerite Michaels believes the trip won?t all be smooth sailing. ?This is a new generation of economically sharp African leaders with very strong ideas and their own approaches to issues of democracy,? says Michaels. ?They don?t just buy everything that we sell. At times the President may hear views more frank than the White House is anticipating...