Word: mattered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...already looking generous by the weekend, as Americans resigned themselves to turning on the news or picking up their papers and having to read stories that painted the White House as a harem, the President as a lecher and the government as a hostage to his libido. No matter what he does, the President now faces a steady flow of ugly leaks from the conversations Tripp recorded or recalled having with Lewinsky. In those conversations, Lewinsky is graphic in detailing, and at times denigrating, the President's sexual characteristics and performance. Clinton, she claimed at one point, had a strict...
...years, ever since he left the presidency of the National Urban League after a racist gunman nearly took his life, going on to become Washington's most powerful back-room fixer. Now he had to violate that principle and offer a partial explanation of his role in the tawdry matter of Monica Lewinsky. "After I shall have read my statement," he said, wrapping himself in a protective layer of syntax, "I will not take questions. I'm going to leave and go back to work...
...Supreme Court ruled for the first time last year, in Paula Jones v. William Clinton, that a President can be sued in a civil matter. Some legal scholars read into that decision a willingness to make the President answerable to criminal prosecutions as well. But others argue that the Founding Fathers intended the Impeachment Clause to be the only mechanism for prosecuting a President. As a practical matter, Starr is more likely to present evidence of illegal activity by Clinton to Congress for impeachment proceedings than to a federal court for trial...
...itself summarizes the relationship, as the tapes reveal it: someone is the supplicant, and it's not the President. Those of us unlucky enough to remember the late 1960s and early 1970s--before Monica Lewinsky was born--recall the radical-feminist critique of sex as purely a matter of power and exploitation. Under some circumstances the critique seems not so radical. It explains why, for example, professors are enjoined from dating their students. Immaturity and infatuation make you vulnerable, even if you yourself aren't aware of it, and decent people in positions of power do not exploit the vulnerable...
...musical's subject matter has not surprisingly provoked controversy. Relatives of the murder victims objected to what they feared would be the glorification of Agron, and they staged a protest at the show's first performance. Some members of the Latino community have complained that a white songwriter is perpetuating Puerto Rican stereotypes. "My fear is that the general public is going to see this as another Puerto Rican with a knife, and they will come out with that view of our community," says Melody Capote, executive director of the Caribbean Cultural Center in New York City. The show...