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...signed an affidavit denying a presidential affair, and the orphaned "talking points" Lewinsky allegedly handed Linda Tripp, asking her to lie in her deposition. Starr hopes to make obstruction the heart of his report to Congress, not only because it is a grave offense. It is a common thread in other parts of his far-flung probe of alleged hush money to Webster Hubbell, the sacking of the White House travel-office staff and the disappearance of Hillary's billing records in a Whitewater-related case...
Well, what else did I have in mind for my twilight years? Not that much. A writer turns 55, the old double nickel, and the slender thread of inspiration has unraveled and you clomp around in circles like an old pony at the pony ride and beautiful women come up and tell you how much their mothers liked something you did in 1975. Your prose style turns flabby. Your work has the shelf life of tropical fish. Compared to that, fathering a baby is sheer nobility, a shot at immortality...
...depositions sworn out by former troopers--whose credibility has been assailed since they first told their stories to the American Spectator in 1993--a common thread is the role played by Buddy Young, who ran Clinton's security operation in Arkansas and who was appointed to a plum federal post after Clinton became President. Larry Patterson, who had worked for Young, said Young once admitted to an unusual job description, saying that one of his tasks was to "keep a lid on some of these women. I believe the term Buddy used was 'to keep the other shoe from falling...
...Clinton has one chance left to avoid the embarrassment of becoming the first sitting President to star in his own courtroom drama. Led by Robert Bennett, his lawyers have asked Judge Susan Webber Wright to dismiss Paula Jones' case. They say that while Jones' claim began with a single thread--that then Governor Clinton harmed her in 1991, when he allegedly exposed himself and asked for sex in a hotel room--it has since been embroidered into a garish tapestry of ancillary allegations intended to mortify. This week Jones' lawyers will respond to the motion and in doing so will...
...like the fictional character he studies, the pressure of maintaining ties to his heritage was a thread that ran throughout Diop's upbringing...