Word: traps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Margaret Carlson NO, THERE'S A TRAP WAITING...
...whining Rodent and barely sniffs when both Aleksii and Serge die right in front of him, and then runs off to...play his beloved girlfriend a love song on his guitar?!? O'Toole brings facial and vocal expression to hilarious limits, but without ever falling into the trap of acting crass or melodramatic. His sharply calm, no-nonsense voice melts faster than the Chernobyl reactor in the presence of his sweetheart, the cruel and mocking Katherina Serafima Gleb (Sara Yellen '00). She, in turn, kicks him and his desperate advances to the floor and screams, "I'm a lesbian!" with...
WASHINGTON: This could be Bill Clinton's greatest escape yet. With Ken Starr preparing a tightly-wound perjury trap, the President's options are limited. If he continues to deny a relationship with Monica Lewinsky in front of the grand jury Monday, Starr has an armory of evidence that suggests otherwise. Now senior advisers are floating the possiblity that Clinton will admit to sex with Monica without contradicting his previous denial of the affair -- because the definition of sex he was shown in the Paula Jones case was incomplete. This legal loophole, says TIME Deputy Washington Bureau Chief Jef McAlister...
...other decision is likely to have such a profound impact on how history will view the second half of the Clinton presidency. In purely legal terms, the strategy was inarguably a sound one, the surest way to ensure Clinton's survival against what his defenders view as a perjury trap on Starr's part. But for the sake of his presidency, many in and out of the White House still believe Clinton should have drawn upon his skills as the most powerful communicator of his generation to put forward an explanation, take his chances with the consequences...
...Arafat's likely response will be to declare a Palestinian state in May 1999. That option may be a trap: "If they do it next May, they're not going to control enough territory to create a meaningful state," says Beyer. "But there's a danger that declaring a state allows the international community to close the file on the Palestinian issue." In the short term, however, look for Washington to send out Dennis Ross to start rolling his boulder up the hill again...