91.   As an independent counsel toils behind the scenes on his investigation of House Speaker Newt Gingrich, Republicans have launched an ethics counteroffensive against Democrats.

92.   As a result, they said, Reno lacks a basis to find probable wrongdoing, a requirement of requesting an independent counsel.

93.   As an independent counsel, Starr does not report directly to the Justice Department and is, in the first instance, the judge of his own behavior.

94.   As I read excerpts of the report compiled by independent counsel Kenneth Starr, it has been difficult to discern the difference.

95.   As The Economist went to press, the White House received a subpoena for information about Lewinsky from Kenneth Starr, the independent counsel already investigating other Clinton scandals.

96.   As anticipated, the Starr report is rife with details of sexual encounters, toward which the independent counsel adopts a tone of pained necessity.

97.   As such, it is no more supportable in the face of the showing of need by the independent counsel, Kenneth Starr, in the Monica Lewinsky investigation.

98.   As independent counsel he has repeatedly pressed at and beyond the edge of appropriate prosecutorial behavior.

99.   As we have seen, any allegation can wind up as independent counsel fodder, whereas many of these cases could be handled by career Justice Department prosecutors.

100.   Asking concise questions designed to make the independent counsel look good, Schippers roused the audience to a standing ovation for Starr.