Word: wounded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...announced her opposition to the deal. Granting Huang even partial immunity, she argued, may interfere with her ongoing investigation into campaign finance irregularities. "It's basically the Ollie North rule," says TIME's John Dickerson. "North had an indictment thrown out because the partial immunity he had been granted wound up being treated as total immunity. It's just too complicated legally. And Reno's worried that she'll lose Huang." Thompson's worried too. His proposed compromise: let Huang testify without immunity, answering only the questions that he will agree to discuss. Huang has already offered to freely testify...
...famous libel case--psychoanalyst Jeffrey Masson against the New Yorker's Janet Malcolm--turned in part on whether an interview took place over goat cheese at Chez Panisse in Berkeley, Calif., or breakfast at Malcolm's Manhattan home. Details matter, especially when they wound real people. Reich is safe: his meals--lunch, breakfast, whatever--were with public figures. Not so the reader who thought Reich was being true to what happened...
Rarely has any political leader inflicted such a devastating wound on himself and his party. And Jospin, who barely lost to Chirac in the last presidential election, has promised big changes. He and his allies said they would fight France's stubborn 12.8% unemployment rate by creating 700,000 government-backed jobs, reduce the workweek from 39 to 35 hours with no loss in pay, suspend planned privatizations, cut the sales tax and raise the minimum wage. The leftist platform, if implemented, threatens to send the deficits soaring and derail French chances of meeting the tough criteria for joining Europe...
Even today, in an age that has raised public humiliation to an art form, the downfall of Oscar Wilde is still shocking. He was one of Britain's leading playwrights, wits and public figures of the 1890s. But after his homosexuality was exposed in three scandalous public trials, he wound up disgraced, impoverished, imprisoned and, a few years later, dead. O.J. Simpson just has a little more trouble finding foursomes...
...LAST WOUND-UP: Branco International's waterproof wristwatch tells regular time and is also preprogrammed to count...