Word: trippe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...TRIPP THE TRIPPER...
...your article "There's Something about Linda" [NATION, Oct. 5], Linda Tripp turns out to be exactly what we have come to expect: devious, manipulative and certainly not someone who can be called a friend. The Judiciary Committee agreed to censor the numerous racial and ethnic jokes that Tripp and Monica Lewinsky made. Regardless of their relevance, if Clinton had made one of these jokes, it would have been front-page headlines. Why are Lewinsky and Tripp sheltered from public disclosure of their tasteless and biased remarks? ABE LIU Del Mar, Calif...
...early heads-up, which came four days before Tripp herself called Starr's deputy Jackie Bennett, would have allowed Starr more time to craft his strategy to get jurisdiction over the Lewinsky angle. And it also would have lengthened the period in which Starr was looking into the Jones case without first receiving permission from Reno, a serious problem given the Independent Counsel Act's tough rules against free-lance investigating. Starr's spokesman Charles Bakaly denies that the office began probing before Tripp called. But last week David Kendall, the President's private attorney, sent a letter to Reno...
...celebrity, and public interest in your sins may be meager. But as cyberspace grows, its ultra-narrowcasting will serve even meager appetites. So next time you scorn a lover or a friend, make sure she doesn't have Web-authoring software. Just imagine--your own personal Linda Tripp, mad as ever and now equipped with...
Clinton has disappointed me, Starr has angered me, Tripp has disgusted me, and Lewinsky has embarrassed me, but it took Charles Krauthammer to really tick me off [ESSAY, Sept. 28]. His commentary "Clinton's Pyrrhic Victory" implies that the two-thirds of the American public who support Clinton are mindless sheep, being pushed willy-nilly by pollsters and incapable of independent judgment. Bill Clinton has not somehow won me over with lies and manipulation; I never thought his personal character was without blemish. What he has done is the job we chose him to do, and overall he's done...