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What's happening may mean there are no second acts for sexual scandals in America -- which holds out some hope for Senator Bob Packwood, whose ethics case for sexual misconduct entered Phase 2 last week. (The first phase ended with his unsuccessful televised plea from the well of the Senate to keep his diary secret.) When Gennifer Flowers first dished the sexual dirt during the 1992 campaign, talk shows tripped over one another to have her on, and CNN covered her press conference live with all the solemnity of a Gulf War update. Then, hordes of reporters were panting...
...abuse case that had landed them lifelong prison sentences. In arguing for the new trial, Kelly's attorney submitted a 1993 Frontline documentary (one of two pbs series aired on the case), which skeptically examined the children's fantastic claims of abuse and uncovered potential juror misconduct...
...Senate ethics committee said it had found "substantialcredible evidence" that Sen. Bob Packwood of Oregon abused his officeand engaged in a pattern of sexual misconduct spanning two decades. A five-page committee report released today details 18 cases of alleged sexual harassment over 21 years involving 17 women. The incidents allegedly took place in Packwood's Capitol Hill offices, a Senate elevator, his home, on the campaign trail in Oregon, in a motel room and elsewhere. "With details like 'forcing his tongue in her mouth six times,'" says TIME congressional correspondent Karen Tumulty, "it's incredibly damaging." The committee also...
...blow after another. In 1993 he was forced out as chairman of Minnesota's surgery department. Last year he signed a consent decree with the FDA that prohibits him from conducting trials of experimental drugs. Then last February, shortly after a faculty panel found him guilty of academic misconduct, Najarian abruptly resigned his faculty post...
Last month the National Rifle Association ran full-page ads denouncing the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms for a "tyrannical record of misconduct and abuse of power.'' Assuming those responsible for Oklahoma City have ties to the gun-toting "citizen militias" whose leaders advocate armed conflict against governmental "intrusion,'' shouldn't the N.R.A. reconsider at least the tone of such heated calls to arms...