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...Friday and Saturday rebuttals, Clinton's attorneys say he didn't perjure himself and that Starr includes supposed examples of lies about sex only for "shock value." They say some of the questions he was asked were "ambiguous" and that he gave "narrow," not false, answers in response. They point out that one other person's testimony isn't enough for a perjury conviction. And they say Starr never proves that Clinton intended to lie--a requirement for perjury. One rebuttal says Starr's real complaint about Clinton's gifts testimony is that he "was not more forthcoming," which doesn...
Upon returning to America, expecting the usual back-to-school ritual exchanges of hugs and how-was-your-summers, Harlow received a shock: he was not penciled in for Eliot housing after...
...equities. Small wonder: the market has doubled just since 1994. But these investors are about to get account statements showing declines of 20% to 30%. Even if they have been in the black over the past 12 months, not to mention the past few years, it will be a shock to be reminded, for the first time in years, that stocks can go down as well...
...militarism," says John Silvia, chief economist at Scudder Kemper Investments. "If the world is not as peaceful as we expected, then a lot of money in the U.S. that went into consumer spending and capital investment may now have to go back to defense, and that's going to shock the budget here...
...Hampton was surprised when a Chicago Tribune reporter phoned her with the news that suspects had been arrested in the murder of her 11-year-old granddaughter Ryan Harris. "I thought it was a 17- and an 18-year-old," Hampton told TIME, "not seven and eight." Hampton's shock reverberated around the U.S. as Chicago police charged two preteen boys with the August murder in the city's grim Englewood district, declaring the pair had confessed to killing Ryan for her brand-new bicycle and molesting her body with a tree twig. But Hampton was still puzzled. Police...