Word: tells
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wasn't so much that the jury of eight--evenly divided between officers and enlisted men and including one black, one Hispanic and two women (both officers)--believed McKinney; it was that the jury didn't believe the six women who, unknown to one another, had come forward to tell similar stories about crude come-ons from the Army's senior soldier. As the verdicts were read in an Army courtroom at Fort Belvoir, just south of Washington, five of the six sat listening in disbelief, some in tears, others stone-faced. Sergeant Major Brenda Hoster, McKinney's former public...
...Bill Clinton, the White House was so eager to keep her quiet that a top aide approached her to cut a deal. In exchange for agreeing not to publicly use the A words (adultery and affair), Browning told Paula Jones' lawyers, the White House promised that Clinton would not tell any untruths about her and she would be permitted to say that she and Clinton had a 33-year relationship that from time to time included...
...Suharto is determined to remain President for as long as it takes to solve Indonesia's economic crisis, but he refuses to acknowledge that his family, with its tentacles deep into the nation's business interests, is part of the problem. "None of the economists around him dare to tell him the truth," says Mochtar Buchori, a newspaper columnist in Jakarta. "None have the courage to tell him, 'No, you are wrong...
...Observations) but nothing about the half-hour format, says: "This would have been a nightmare without John." After three years of work, they're so close and eat so many meals together that Franken knows what to order for Markus and how to tease out his life story ("John, tell how you enrolled at Stanford because you thought it was near Hollywood"). To perfect the new show's details, Markus and Franken became flies on the wall at Nightline. "It's amazing how much access you can get when you bring a dozen cappuccinos and a box of muffins," says...
That last comment is yet another confirmation of the first rule for listening to either politicians or Sabbath Gasbags: whenever one of them is about to tell you what "the American people" want or what "the American people" believe, you would be well advised to hit the mute button. As it turns out, a detailed explanation of his relationship with Monica Lewinsky seems to be the last thing "the American people" are demanding from President Clinton. At least for now, they seem to prefer viewing him as someone who is good at his job despite some personal flaws--more...