Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When she appeared on 60 Minutes in all her high-cheekboned, Virginia gentry poise, Kathleen Willey looked like a woman whose most egregious lie might have been a fib about her dress size. But whether or not the former White House volunteer was telling the truth about her encounter with Bill Clinton, it seems that she has not been above baroque acts of deception...
...under fire by the very district attorney, John Suthers, who originally urged that the company be hired. Although Maximus has so far increased collections about 11% a year, Suthers says, that record is no better than what government workers were doing and is half the improvement he expected. In Virginia, EDS agreed last year to pay $2.3 million in reimbursements and damages after it failed to deliver on a $45 million contract to computerize the state's Medicaid system. And last month Lockheed Martin admitted that the first year of its Baltimore child-support-collection program fell more than...
...special investigation, TIME magazine reported that Willey has a record of telling tales to get back at boyfriends. According to several sources, the Virginia socialite told her lover Shaun Docking that she was pregnant with his twins. This was followed by an aborted abortion and a miscarriage -- all of which were fabrications, claims Willey's friend of 20 years, Julie Steele. There's so much doubt in D.C. about Willey's story that even Anita Hill has chimed in against her. ?We aren?t talking about sexual harassment,? said Hill. No word yet on a final book deal...
...West Virginia vs. Utah, Ch. 4, 8:05p.m...
Right from his first two films in the mid-'60s (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and The Graduate), Nichols has trusted original material, pruning carefully, changing little. Nichols and May's film of Primary Colors faithfully distills the 366-page book, excising a few colorful critters (like the caricatures of Mario Cuomo and Jesse Jackson) but bringing the rest to seductive life onscreen. The major elision is the one-night stand Henry has with Susan Stanton...