Word: winging
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...with the White House logs. According to the New York Times, the records show Lewinsky visited the White House 37 times after moving to the Pentagon. Trouble is, it's purely circumstantial. As is the latest "evidence" of what Stephanopoulos described as "a bit of a well-funded right-wing conspiracy": Remember the receipts of packages reportedly sent to Clinton via his personal secretary, Betty Currie? WRC-TV reports that the Washington courier service that provided them is owned by relatives of Lucianne Goldberg, Linda Tripp's New York book agent. Curiouser and curiouser...
...that in Washington, excitement and fame are traded in a currency more basic than power: knowledge. And Tripp has had a good taste of that, having held secretarial jobs all over the White House, including a stint in one of the most sensitive, secret-rich corners of the West Wing, the counsel's office. It is Scandal Central, the final stop for all legal matters. A busy place in the Clinton years...
...yeah, yeah'--she wasn't that excited," says the co-worker. "When she said that, it struck me as kind of odd, because most people would die for that position." The job would move her out of the busy Old Executive Office Building and into the comparatively quiet East Wing, and farther from Clinton...
...tabloid headlines, feeding the public's fears of juvenile delinquency and gang violence. At 16, Agron became the youngest person ever to receive the death penalty in New York State, a sentence that was later commuted to life imprisonment. In prison, Agron educated himself, began writing poetry and left-wing political tracts and became a cause celebre for liberal intellectuals. He won a parole in 1979 and died seven years later of an apparent heart attack...
...last unknown soldier? 1st Lieut. MICHAEL BLASSIE's 138th combat mission ended in flames near An Loc, South Vietnam, in May 1972, when the enemy blasted the wing off his plane. What is unknown is whether Blassie, then a 24-year-old Air Force Academy graduate, now rests beneath a sacred marble slab in the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery. That possibility got a boost last week as veterans detailed their hunch that, through snafus and an eagerness to anoint a Vietnam-era vet as an unknown, the Pentagon ignored evidence that could have determined...