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How is Kenneth Starr's extraordinary term as independent counsel to be understood? Was he a partisan warrior out to get the Clintons, or a savior of the Republic? An unstoppable menace, an unethical lawyer, or a sex-obsessed Puritan striving to enforce a right-wing social morality? This book is the first serious, impartial effort to evaluate and critique Starr's tenure as independent counsel. Relying on lengthy, revealing interviews with Starr and many other players in Clinton-era Washington,Washington Postjournalist Benjamin Wittes arrives at a new understanding of Starr and the part he played in one of American history's most enthralling public sagas.Wittes offers a subtle and deeply considered portrait of a decent man who fundamentally misconstrued his function under the independent counsel law. Starr took his task to be ferreting out and reporting the truth about official misconduct, a well-intentioned but nevertheless misguided distortion of the law, Wittes argues. At key moments throughout Starr's probe-from the decision to reinvestigate the death of Vincent Foster, Jr., to the repeated prosecutions of Susan McDougal and Webster Hubbell to the failure to secure Monica Lewinsky's testimony quickly--the prosecutor avoided the most sensible prosecutorial course, fearing that it would compromise the larger search for truth. This approach not only delayed investigations enormously, but it gave Starr the appearance of partisan zealotry and an almost maniacal determination to prosecute the president. With insight and originality, Wittes provides in this account of Starr's term a fascinating reinterpretation of the man, his performance, and the controversial events that surrounded the impeachment of President Clinton.

Kenneth Starr's investigation led to the impeachment and trial of President William Jefferson Clinton. During this process, Starr and his investigation were the subject of repeated attacks from Clinton, Clinton's supporters, and the news media. In November of 1998, Starr was interviewed by Diane Sawyer on 20/20 in an obvious attempt to repair his image. In this critical analysis, we sketch the theory of image repair discourse (used as a critical lens for this investigation), identify the accusations treated in the interview, analyze Starr's discourse, and evaluate the effectiveness of his image repair discourse. We conclude that his image repair effort was ineffectual (public opinion data are consistent with our evaluation). The evaluation stresses that both selection and implementation of image repair strategies influence effectiveness, argues that bolstering may proceed through identification with the audience, and suggests that the discourse should be internally consistent.

Martin K. Starr facilitated the creation of an identity for production and operations management (POM) as an academic discipline. This paper aims to summarize Starr's substantial contributions to scholarly inquiry on system integration and interfunctional coordination, modular production, and catastrophe avoidance. Even after four decades, we describe how his legacy in these areas continues to define several major drivers of operations and supply chain management research and practice. Starr has influenced several generations of students, professors, and executives with his writings, teaching, and leadership roles in the POM community that include 32 years on the faculty of the Columbia School of Business, 15 years as Editor‐in‐Chief of Management Science, and presidency of the Production and Operations Management Society.

Mike Lindell, CEO of My Pillow and prominent backer of formerPresident Donald Trump's false voter fraud claims, said Tuesday theFBI served him with a grand jury subpoena for the contents of hisphone as part of an investigation into a Colorado election securitybreach. Tom Brady remarked on his latest podcast appearance that he is\"close to the end\" of his NFL career as he continued to hint at hisretirement. Kenneth Winston Starr, a former U.S. solicitor general whogained worldwide fame in the 1990s as the independent counsel whodoggedly investigated President Bill Clinton during a series ofpolitical scandals, has died at age 76. GUESTS: Dave Aronberg

60 Minutes investigates how Kenneth Starr may have attempted to get low-level targets to testify against more prominent ones. Morley Safer reports.