Word: trialing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Paula Corbin Jones' sexual misconduct lawsuit against President Clinton. Wright, once Professor Clinton's law student, is a Republican judge appointed to the Federal bench by former president Bush. She ruled that Jones' case lacked the tangible evidence of sexual harassment and emotional distress needed to justify a trial against the President. As a result of this ruling, Jones' brief encounter with fame seems to have come to an end. She will now disappear from the political scene just as quickly as Monica S. Lewinsky burst onto...
...should welcome this news. Legal issues aside, Judge Wright's ruling has saved us from a long, hot summer of tawdry trial revelations about the President's sexual history and anatomy and spared us the spectacle of a media feeding frenzy at Camp Little Rock concealed by a facade of earnest journalism...
...dismissal of the trial means that Clinton avoids the potential for even more personal embarrassment. (Although at this point, how much worse could it get?) Further, with impeachment now a politically-suicidal option for the Republicans, he can focus on salvaging the remainder of his term. His fellow Democrats can more comfortably stand by their Booster-in-Chief as they head into the '98 campaign...
...reviewed her sentence: "You are to register for a postponement of your trial to any date within one year of the date you have been summoned. Failing to do so is a punishable offense. On that date, you are required to appear in court in Lowell, Massachusetts...
...Although the trial had been hailed as an opportunity for France to explore a shameful episode of its past, Crumley says ?the French remain in denial about a lot of things -- 15 percent of the population now votes for Le Pen, a man who says the gas chambers are a ?detail of history.?? And with the far right moving inexorably into France?s political mainstream, the issues at the heart of Papon?s trial are more current than ever...