Word: sin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...America's original sin is slavery", Bond told the crowd. "And in this country, for better or worse, race is the trump card for everything...
...grand jury testimony, according to the transcripts, the courtroom resembled an Oprah studio taping. The woman who'd used broad smiles and cute pet names to soften up the Commander in Chief had turned the grand jurors to pudding. "We've all fallen short," one assured her. "We sin every...
What's striking is not the parallels between the events, but their enormous differences. Unlike Clinton, Jackson did not take months to come clean about his sin. Nor, in the end, did he try to hide behind semantic sophistry. After about a week of excruciating deliberation--made all the more painful because some of the black clergymen advising Jackson wanted him to continue lying in order to preserve his political viability--Jackson went into a synagogue in New Hampshire and delivered an abject apology. Later, at the Democratic Convention in San Francisco, he repeated his plea for forgiveness, insisting passionately...
...whole jolly she-bang? Repeated endlessly, these questions have become painfully boring, but it is easy to be horrified by some of the press's efforts for sensationalism. One angle particularly off the mark is the moralistic retelling of young intern cast as naive victim and lead astray into sin by bad older...
...want to suggest that Woman is always the perpetrator of sin, with a wiggle and a bounce. That would be equally naive and a down-right dangerous assertion. But each case is different, and when two consenting people break their commandment of choice, it is insulting to women to label Monica a victim. Just because she is young, female and virtually a secretary doesn't mean she was taken advantage of. She knew what was up--what she wanted and how to get it--as do a fair share of young women. No need to like Miss Lewinsky, or even...