Word: suspicions
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...which the Clintons were partners with James McDougal, Madison's former owner. Thus the participants in the vain attempt to get Stephens could try to invoke the basketball rule: no harm, no foul. Or they could claim that when White House aides made remarks merely to express dislike and suspicion of Stephens (the aides make no secret they consider him a "right-wing zealot" out to get the President), those statements were misinterpreted as a demand that Stephens be fired. Still, as a Clinton aide admits, while "the actual words used before the grand jury regarding how we felt about...
...episode, it was said, could not have been foreseen or prevented, and Israeli security forces responded properly. But after two weeks of hearings by a state commission examining the slaughter, it does not look so elementary anymore. Baruch Goldstein, the Hebron triggerman, is no longer the sole subject of suspicion, now that witnesses say a second man may have been involved. More broadly, an entire national mind-set that enabled settlers to run amuck with shocking ease is on trial...
...Goldstein entered the mosque carrying an M-16 rifle, not the Israeli-made Glilon (a shortened Galil assault rifle) that the army claimed fired all the shots inside the mosque. One of the soldiers said that another man entered the shrine shortly after Goldstein, with a Glilon. That aroused suspicion that Goldstein had an accomplice, as some Palestinians have contended...
Rose partners shrug off the story, insisting, plausibly, that if they had anything to hide, they would not have gotten two lower-rung employees to do their dirty work. Hedges says senior partners would be just as unlikely to risk attracting suspicion by doing something out of the ordinary -- like their own shredding. "People get suspicious...
...title of Philip Brian Harper's recent book filled me at once with intrigue and suspicion...