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As political accusations against Starr and the right have escalated, the press has devoted a greater share of its scandal coverage to questioning the methods and motives of those who gathered the evidence against Clinton.
The Washington Post leads with a report that cocaine and marijuana seizures in the southwestern U.S. and along Mexico's Pacific coast have escalated dramatically in the past two years.
Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan briefly shook world financial markets a couple of weeks ago with a single question: "How do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values?"
Three times they have signed with high-interest lenders that refinanced their Denver home, gave them some cash and escalated their debts.
But the country was politically fragmented, with arguments between monarchists and republicans, right and left, and tension escalated into civil war.