Word: inquisitor
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...conflicted female supporter of the President's. The Kathleen Willey TV interview shifted my opinion. It now seems clear that independent counsel Kenneth Starr and Bill Clinton have found the perfect match for their seamier sides: Starr's need to play the Grand Inquisitor and Clinton's apparent inability to control his sexual appetite. It is an American tragedy writ large. ANNE S. WAGNER Cheyenne...
...confusion stems partly from the independent-counsel law itself. Because it provides such wide-ranging powers, it can make even the most scrupulous prosecutor look at times like the Grand Inquisitor. The unlimited budget and open-ended time frame of an independent counsel give Starr's probe an ominous bulk even when it's idling in neutral, as it was during much of the year before the latest scandal exploded. "Any federal prosecutor has more resources than the target of his investigation, but other federal prosecutors must assign priorities among investigations," says Theodore Olson, a former assistant attorney general...
...tens of millions." He says that as long ago as 1978, Madalyn kept multiple secret accounts around the world, at least one of which contained hundreds of thousands of dollars (declared funds from estates in 1995 came to a relatively paltry $340,000). Withers, the Murray-O'Hairs' legal inquisitor, supports the hidden-money theory, volunteering that a Murray-O'Hair phone log that he had access to featured numbers of Swiss banks...
...other side of Capitol Hill, the President's chief inquisitor on such issues as the Democratic fund-raising scandal will be a man who has never pretended to be impartial. Dan Burton has described himself as a partisan "pit bull," and once performed a re-enactment of Vince Foster's death by shooting bullets into a "headlike object" in his own yard. But the G.O.P. Congressman from Indianapolis insists he wants to make a fresh start in January, when he will take command of the House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, the panel that does most of the investigating...
...work like Target with Four Faces, 1955, is all about threat and concealment. Its impassive, identical plaster casts of faces are contained in a box with a hinged door, a "closet" above the ominous target. Your gaze, in looking at them, is assimilated to the eye of the inquisitor, hunting out what is concealed. It is a pessimistic and, above all, defensive image...