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Apparently, freedom from the responsibility to divulge actual actions is widely appreciated. Some even count on the vagueness. Ken G. Haig '99 admits that because of the ambiguity, "people give you the benefit of the doubt." Jack P. Donahue '01 agrees, confiding it's "to protect pride, because then people can assume you did more than you did." However, most see the ambiguity as either a way to protect privacy or as a concession to politeness. "Especially girls don't want to say, 'yeah, I fucked this guy last night' or 'yeah, I went down on this guy,'" insists Begnaud...
WASHINGTON: Ken Starr?s investigation has sprung another leak, and this time it?s a big one. Gushing out of the independent counsel?s office comes the news -- reported first in the Washington Post -- that large chunks of Starr?s report to the House are already written. Which makes for possible impeachment proceedings as early...
...annals of Clintonian scandal, March 1998 may be remembered as a month of sideshows: the rise and fall of Kathleen Willey; a putative White House plot to smear Ken Starr's deputies; a wave of supposed Clinton paramours rising from the files of the Paula Jones case; a campaign-plane flight attendant named Cristy Zercher who says she was groped by Clinton but came so late to the party that her tabloid story fetched only about $50,000. But now, 11 weeks after the independent counsel began his search for misbehavior and cover-up, the scandal is finally circling back...
...challenges NASA faced or the ingenious ways it met them. In view of this flaw and the failure to bring individuals really alive, one wonders if a documentary approach would have been preferable to a dramatization. It would have provided more clarity and very possibly more emotion. As Ken Burns has demonstrated, a documentary need...
WASHINGTON: While Ken Starr was busy ignoring William Ginsburg's fairly ridiculous (and quite un-lawyerly) comment about facts and law being "always subordinated to the will of the American people," Washington's real subordinates -- politicians in an election year -- were struggling to find their footing now that "End the probe" is the Beltway's most popular...