Word: starrs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...That's what Mondale told the grand jury on July 16 this year, when Starr called her in to testify. Like the obsessive prosecutor he is, Starr wanted to cover all the angles. And so Mondale ended up contributing a single word to the Starr report: "correctly" -- as in "Ms. Lewinsky correctly surmised that the President was meeting with Ms. Mondale." Was Starr trying to make the proverbial, subtle-as-a-brick inference of a Clinton-Mondale affair? That's certainly the implication of footnote 739 -- Lewinsky's jealous comment to Tripp -- which isn't even referenced in the text...
...media's coverage of Zippergate. As Clinton Press Secretary Mike McCurry noted, "the press has but one speed on this story and it's fast forward with too few editors who press the pause button." In a realm where the impatient reader can download the relevant information (say, the Starr report) within minutes of its release, the multimedia corporations live and die based on whether they can attract consumers quickly and refer them to the other resources and media outlets they...
Most Republicans are correct when they say that Ken Starr's investigation is not about sex. But they are wrong when they try to assert that it is about perjury, subornation of perjury and obstruction of justice. Since day one, the investigation has been about politics. When boiled down to its essence, it's about a group of individuals who think Bill Clinton should have never come to power...
...last episode, our heroine discovered that the President was with Eleanor Mondale when he was supposed to be meeting with bankers. Monica became "livid," according to the Starr Report, and stormed home to her Watergate apartment. The story continues...
WASHINGTON: As Vernon Jordan might say, mission accomplished. President Clinton's first press conference since the release of the Starr report passed relatively smoothly Wednesday -- and in many ways was more memorable for the comments of Clinton's guest, Czech president Vaclev Havel. That's just the way Clinton wanted it. "He successfully parried all questions without adding anything new to the debate," says TIME Washington correspondent Jay Branegan. "There's a double game going on here -- his lawyers argue the specifics, and he's not to be seen to get into legalisms...