Word: secret
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Last week, as the legal skirmishing between Ken Starr and Bill Clinton reached its highest pitch yet, the independent counsel won the right to question someone who was at Clinton's side at virtually every moment of the Bosnia trip: Secret Service special agent Larry Cockell, the President's bodyguard. After a series of courtroom victories that largely swept away the notion of a "protective privilege" shielding Secret Service agents from having to testify about what they saw or heard while on duty, Starr is free to ask Cockell if he knows anything that contradicts the President's testimony. Cockell...
...White House, there were serious doubts all along that any court would uphold a protective privilege. Administration sources tell TIME that last week, even as the White House's argument was bumping painfully and vainly through the courts, Justice Department officials were telling the Treasury Department, which oversees the Secret Service, that chances of prevailing in the matter were virtually nil. But Treasury officials, led by Robert Rubin--who spoke by telephone from Africa, where he was traveling--opted to go ahead anyway...
WASHINGTON: At this point, says TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan, the White House has resigned itself to letting the Secret Service talk. "Starr has said he will not ask about overheard conversations between Lindsey and the President," he says. "He just wants them to corroborate certain points of the Tripp tapes, and the White House is done trying to stop the testimony." But on Tuesday in the well-trafficked courthouse, there was another battle being waged: the one over Leakgate...
...problem with both books is that they tend to rely on an oversimplified view of boys and their caretakers. On the whole, do we really see boys, as both claim, as toxic? Are we really surprised by Pollack's declaration that boys feel? Is it indeed a "well-kept secret," as his study finds, that boys count girls among their closest friends? Most important, do most mothers really thrust their young sons out into the world unprotected? And if so, might they be doing the same with their girls? Oddly, the hard evidence for this key thesis is absent from...
...more sophisticated--but still far-fetched--level, George Steiner's controversial novel, The Portage to San Cristobal of A.H., argued, as Rosenbaum says, "that the tolerance, the secret approval, the permission [Hitler] received from the rest of the world to exterminate the Jews can be explained by the universal hatred mankind has for the Jewish 'invention of conscience,' for the torment inflicted on man by the ethical demands of Moses, Jesus, and Marx...