Word: starr
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According to Greenblatt, Americans have been comfortable with graphic descriptions of sex in fictional works for many years. But the Starr report marks a first because the acts it exposes are real...
...Starr report might be out ahead of what people are willing to tolerate, but its where we've been moving," Greenblatt says. "Americans have been moving for some years toward an increasingly invasive view toward people's private lives...
...article he first submitted to The New York Times, he says, hinged on one particularly graphic passage from the Starr report. But editors told him they would not reproduce the excerpt in his column, even though they had already published it as part of the full text of the report...
According to Benhabib, if Clinton's affair hadinvolved the violation of national security--forinstance, if Lewinsky had been a "Russianspy"--Starr's investigation might have been moreappropriate...
Morton J. Horwitz, Warren professor of Americanlegal history, says he believes Starr's aggressiveprosecutorial tactics will lead to an expansion ofprivacy...