Word: starrs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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ERIC POOLEY is not unfamiliar with the whirlwind of politics. As one of the magazine's senior political writers, he covered the White House in 1996, has reported on elections around the country and co-wrote our 1998 Man of the Year cover story on Ken Starr. But five weeks ago, he stepped into a firestorm when he became acting Nation editor as the impeachment of the President moved into the Senate. "It certainly hasn't been difficult coming up with story ideas," he says. "But events move so quickly that the story on Friday is vastly different from what...
...YEAR? By now everyone knows that the title notwithstanding, this designation is not the equivalent of a good-citizen award. Yeah, right. We took one look at the Bill Clinton-Ken Starr double billing on the Dec. 28-Jan. 4 cover, and we knew what we were in for. Sure enough, of the 1,431 letters we received, 881 begged us to "make a New Year's resolution: give more thought to 1999's decision." One disappointed reader suggested we should have changed the title to Jerks of the Year...
WEBB HUBBELL Like the fat kid at school, he's always getting picked on. Get ready for more Ken Starr...
Lewinsky is trying to regain control. Last week her lawyers asked a judge to free her from Kenneth Starr's gag rule so she could go on TV for a ritual cleansing administered by Barbara Walters. MTV's Carson Daly would have been a much cooler choice...
...Today" show Friday -- and then, in case you miss it, watch her again Monday, this time on CNN's "Larry King Live." Waiting in the wings is Monica Lewinsky herself, who has agreed to speak to ABC's Barbara Walters as soon as Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr grants her permission. Though nothing's been scheduled yet, don't be surprised to see various postmortems by the House managers and White House representatives. Eventually, it will all go away... until the books come out. But you don't have to buy them if you don't want...