Word: turned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...good Kendall is in the next few weeks as independent counsel Kenneth Starr presses Clinton harder than ever to testify. Starr has invited the President's cooperation at least half a dozen times in recent months, and now the courtship between the two men has taken a more coercive turn: last week he took the unprecedented step of serving a sitting President with a subpoena in a criminal matter in which the President himself is in jeopardy. The White House said virtually nothing about the showdown except to acknowledge for the first time that Kendall had stepped up the delicate...
...home life means spending time with a menagerie of pets and her steady boyfriend, actor Luke Wilson (Bottle Rocket), at her newly converted barn tucked away in a Los Angeles canyon. She has managed to turn her movie teams into cozy families as well: during the filming of Ever After, in an isolated village in France, she endeared herself to the crew by supplementing the set's meager craft-services table with fresh fruits and sandwiches. A strict vegetarian who objects to harming animals, Barrymore also believes in the spiritual power of auras, karma, energy fields and the like. Maybe...
...hearing so private the court clerk would not confirm it happened. The issue at hand was Starr's appeal of a sealed order last month by the lower-court judge Norma Holloway Johnson, who not only admonished Starr for his team's alleged leaks but also ordered him to turn over records of its contacts with the media. The President's lawyer, who had lodged the almost forgotten complaint about leaks last February, had obviously hit pay dirt with Johnson. His motion had all his legal trademarks: it was litigated in secret, was designed to keep Starr quiet...
...months, to about $66. The run has been fueled by other developments in Viacom's vast empire, including the sell-off of most of book publisher Simon & Schuster for $4.6 billion, and a hot streak of hit movies, including Titanic. But it would not have been possible without the turn at Blockbuster, which contributes a third of Viacom's annual revenue...
...seen since pre-breakup AT&T -- and the resultant behemoth would be the nation's second largest phone company, behind its former parent. The FCC just wants to make sure that local giants such as Bell Atlantic provide access to competitors. Otherwise, some of the Baby Bells would turn into Ma -- and Pa -- Bells...