Word: starrs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although he made light of his own presidential bid, former Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis urged students to go into politics last night before a packed Starr Auditorium at the Kennedy School...
...STARR Sinks one at the buzzer with Hubbell guilty plea, but who cares? Game over...
Hillary Clinton can breathe easy again. On Monday, according to sources cited by several news organizations, Kenneth Starr reached a plea agreement with presidential pal Webster Hubbell that ends the independent counsel?s last pending case. The resolution of the charges against Hubbell, expected to be announced on Wednesday, gives everyone a little something to go home with: Starr got Hubbell to plead guilty to one felony count of lying about the failed Castle Grande land deal while he was a lawyer at the Rose Law Firm in Arkansas, and also one misdemeanor count involving tax evasion. Hubbell...
...last benefit is of no small importance to Mrs. Clinton, who is gearing up to run for one of New York's U.S. Senate seats and faced the possibility of being called as a witness in the Hubbell case. For Starr, the plea bargain allows him to leave the public stage with a certain level of vindication after having repeatedly pursued Hubbell on Clinton-related matters. It also sweetens somewhat the bitter taste of recent defeats -- the acquittal and mistrial of Susan McDougal and the mistrial of Juliet Hiatt Steele. Of course, it is unlikely to change the verdict...
...Hold On, about losing a friend to AIDS, and Possession, about a controlling lover, reveal glimmers of rage that her studio albums only hint at. From her biggest album, 1997's Surfacing, the ode to love gone bad, Do What You Have to Do (which popped up in the Starr report when a certain intern's jottings to the President cited it as her fave), becomes a taut wire of despair as its restless, searching piano line plays off the icy clarity of her lyrics: "What ravages of spirit conjured/ this tempestuous rage/ created you a monster/ broken...