Word: starrs
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...lied." He said, "I misled people." Instead of asking forgiveness for betraying his wife and daughter, his staff, his Cabinet and his constituency, he fought back at the independent counsel, Kenneth W. Starr, devoting the second half of the speech to an angry attack, shifting the blame...
...discourse," "return our attention to all the challenges and all the promise of the next American century"--a series of thinly veiled imperatives, the scolding teacher again blaming us for having shown an interest in scandal, as if we had fueled the investigation. As if without us or Ken Starr, there would have been no problem...
...Starr, not by any means. But his strange and excessive doggedness does not excuse the President for allowing him to find something when he went looking for it. Here is a president whose intelligence, energy and seeming seriousness of purpose endeared him to us, drew us in, made us believe he would help us and the country as a whole. And now, for the last eight months at least, he has failed us. At best, he has wasted our time. At worst, he has betrayed our trust...
WASHINGTON: When Ken Starr's 36 House guests arrived Wednesday, unannounced and two days early, their Republican hosts had an understandable reaction -- lock them in a room until all the beds get made. TIME political editor Priscilla Painton says that while the two 18-box sets of raw scandal data languish in that sealed room in the Ford office building, the report looks leakproof, and "the process by which House members decide what to do with it may be as important as what...
...That process will include a resolution by the Henry Hyde-led Judiciary Committee, scheduled to be hammered out Thursday, and full House debate, perhaps as early as Friday. In the meantime, Starr spokesman Charles Bakaly sounded happy to be rid of it. "We have fulfilled our duty," he said, "by providing substantial and credible information that may constitute grounds for the impeachment of the President of the United States." Not surprisingly, the ever-terse David Kendall disagreed. "We do know this," he answered. "There is no basis for impeachment." That judgment, of course, will be made by 435 politically queasy...