Word: starrs
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...columns continue to be controversial. In recent months he has become a relentless critic of independent counsel Kenneth W. Starr. Opponents have denounced his unwavering loyalty to President Clinton...
...having the most spectacular time of anybody's life, and nobody is better at it than SHARON STONE. Chairing a celebrity auction in Cannes for the American Foundation for AIDS Research, Stone hit the hammer for one lucky bidder, who won a mini-concert from Elton John and Ringo Starr--and, though not listed in the auction book, backup singing from Miramax head Harvey Weinstein. With Harvey as inspiration, Stone did what appeared to be the frug in a sequined dress that, seemingly against the actress's will, prevented her breasts from popping...
...beans on chats with their boss about the former White House intern. "If there were instructions from the President to obstruct justice or efforts to suborn perjury," Johnson wrote, "such actions likely took the form of conversations involving the President's closest advisers." Flush with that success, Ken Starr is doing an end-run round a Clinton appeal -- by taking the entire executive privilege case to the Supreme Court...
...privilege Clinton still retains, and has apparently exercised as many as five times, is the right to resist appearing before the grand jury himself. The White House has offered a couple of excuses: The President is too busy; the President distrusts questions from Ken Starr. The real reason for his reticence, if William Ginsburg is to be believed, may be little more than embarassment. In an open letter to California Lawyer magazine , the Lewinsky attorney congratulated Starr on doing nothing more than "unmasking a sexual relationship between two consenting adults." Whether that's the independent counsel's privilege...
...Starr says he's merely after the truth, and that he only wants the testimony of a few agents. But many outside this White House -- George Bush wrote a letter to Starr defending the Service's position -- worry that Starr's short-term objective could have dangerous consequences down the road...