Word: wifely
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Finally, there was another, more intriguing, factor. When the Lewinsky story broke, Clinton played a dummy hand, sitting out the first 48 hours in shock, while his wife plotted a way out. But this time, if the White House can be believed, Clinton was just plain mad. On Saturday night he and his Camp David houseguests watched The Boxer, a dense drama of personal and political pain in Northern Ireland. Then he got on the phone with the trashman, James Carville, who in 1992 ran the war room and commandeered the phrase "speed kills" to express the belief that when...
...sought out her friend the President in the Oval Office. As she raced home from that controversial meeting, Ed Willey pulled his blue Isuzu Trooper off a country road and, after blowing a tire, walked into the woods and shot himself. "I deserve your eternal scorn," Willey wrote his wife in a suicide note in which he apologized for his financial misdeeds and enclosed a lottery ticket and a $100 bill...
Lyons' troubles began to surface last July after Deborah, his wife of 26 years, discovered a deed showing that he shared ownership of a house with Bernice Edwards, a convention liaison. Deborah, believing she had caught her husband in adultery (a charge he denies), made her way to the $700,000 mansion in the tony Tierra Verde neighborhood. Finding his clothes and effects in the lavishly decorated home, she set at least four fires. During the trip home, she hit a tree in her own, less expensive St. Petersburg neighborhood and soon admitted to police that...
...Petersburg Times and in the state investigation. In 1991 Lyons spent a year in a federal pretrial-intervention program to avoid being prosecuted on bank-fraud charges. His marriage certificate to Deborah says it was a first union for both; in fact it was his third. One ex-wife recently came forward with stories that he physically and emotionally abused her; another woman is claiming to be his illegitimate daughter. And Bernice Edwards, 40, is not quite the proper company for a clergyman: she has been convicted of federal embezzlement charges, filed for bankruptcy four times and used six aliases...
...possible 20 years in prison after he was found guilty on four counts of extortion Tuesday. ?What I am offering is simple,? Pletcher, 22, wrote Microsoft boss Bill Gates. ?Your life for $5 million.? His letters went on to threaten harm to Gates, his wife, his daughter and colleague Steve Ballmer. In the chat room tradition, Pletcher posed as a 34-year-old ex-Army Ranger with a 100 percent kill rate...