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Though he stepped down from his independent-counsel post nearly five years ago, the partisan rancor created by his investigation of President Bill Clinton has never fully subsided. With Clinton's new book out and Kenneth Starr about to start a job in August as dean of Pepperdine Law School, TIME'S Sonja Steptoe caught up with him for an updated Starr report...
DIED. CLAYTON KIRKPATRICK, 89, pioneering editor of the Chicago Tribune; in Glen Ellyn, Ill. When he took over the paper in 1969, Kirkpatrick wrote in an editorial, "No political party should take the Tribune for granted." Under his 10-year reign, the Tribune dropped its partisan Republican stance and became an objective, nationally respected publication...
...former President was dressed formally, in a blue suit, white shirt and pink tie, but he spoke easily and often quite candidly about his successes and failures. The purpose was to sell books, obviously, but Clinton was also intent on adding his two cents to the never-ending partisan donnybrook that has become a central component of his legacy. In his memoirs and our interview, he launched a blistering counterattack against the people whose books and actions were not in his "non-nutcase" category--the members of Hillary Clinton's "vast right-wing conspiracy," especially Whitewater special prosecutor Kenneth Starr...
...night before, Clinton had made a remarkable appearance onstage at New York University after the screening of his friend Harry Thomason's new documentary, The Hunting of the President--an unabashedly partisan account of the Whitewater prosecution (or "persecution," as Clinton called it, perhaps not inadvertently). "Starr was the instrument of a grand design," the President said, launching a 30-minute disquisition into the historical roots of the rabid partisanship that marked his time in office. "He did what he was hired to do ... Hillary was hooted and derided for calling it a vast right-wing conspiracy. I joked with...
...Bush, who promised to unite the nation after years of bitter partisan battle, the choices are also stark. As the country splits between the faithful and the secular, how does he continue to inspire the white Evangelicals, who support him in overwhelming numbers, while not alienating the independents or further inflaming the Democrats so that their turnout rises as well? And more important than the politics is the policy. How, for instance, does a devout President rally a country against an enemy that claims to fight in God's name without implying that this is a Holy War? "For every...