Word: starrs
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Experience, not ideology, deepened Starr's mistrust of the Clinton White House. The Lewinsky scandal followed years of Executive Branch stonewalling in several other investigations. Some of it, Starr's team believed, was criminal. Prosecutors closed their Whitewater grand jury inquiry in 1998, Schmidt and Weisskopf report, convinced that Hillary Clinton had lied to investigators, though they lacked sufficient evidence to indict her. Later, as the Lewinsky scandal progressed, the stonewalling included the Secret Service's "protective function privilege," a fanciful legal gambit designed by Justice Department lawyers to prevent agents from testifying. Starr had reason to believe that this...
...phase. The inevitable histories are showing up in bookstores, and the most commercially successful of them--from Monica Lewinsky's bathetic memoir Monica's Story to the artful partisanship of Jeffrey Toobin's A Vast Conspiracy--are markedly one-sided in recounting the struggle between Bill Clinton and Kenneth Starr. The accepted narrative, in brief: an insensitive but all too human Chief Executive is beset by a sex-obsessed religious zealot masquerading as an upholder of the rule of law. To judge by sales, this version of events has many adherents among book buyers, which means it's good marketing...
Last week the literature of Lewinsky expanded considerably with the publication of Truth at Any Cost: Ken Starr and the Unmaking of Bill Clinton (HarperCollins; 326 pages), by Susan Schmidt and Michael Weisskopf. Both were reporters on the scene: Schmidt broke the Lewinsky story in the Washington Post, and Weisskopf followed its every twist for TIME. Starr is at the center of their narrative, a more complicated figure--not quite sympathetic, but more comprehensible--than the Torquemada caricature of Clintonite nightmares...
There are surprising incongruities to that caricature. His own family is not picture perfect (his brother was convicted of fraud), and according to Weisskopf and Schmidt, he "was never the hard-right ideologue later portrayed by Clinton allies." His childhood hero was John Kennedy. When Starr considered running for the Senate in Virginia, it was to derail the campaign of Oliver North, the right-wing poster boy whom he considered "a disgrace...
Performers did their best to prove that Boston does indeed have a substantive music scene. Gang Starr, receiving a Boston Hall of Fame Award, shared bumping beats and inspiring words with the audience. Guru, the rhyming side of the duo, said, "I left Boston with a duffel bag and a dream and somehow did something big." He also attempted to bridge the obvious and awkward gap between hip-hop artists on stage and the pop/rock fans that dominated the audience by giving a "Big-up to Godsmack -- I like your stuff." Not so much that they didn't bolt from...