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USAT suggests the proffer includes an admission of sex with Clinton, which, the paper says, an earlier draft did not.
In a proffer session, a witness, defendant, or potential defendant provides the prosecution with a preview of the evidence he or she could provide or the testimony they would give.
Lewinsky's lawyer, William Ginsburg, has made a "proffer ": In exchange for immunity from prosecution, his client will testify under oath that she and President Clinton had sex.
Why is it, as etymologist Walter Skeat asked frequently in the last century, that people will not hesitate to proffer publicly their guess-work on word origins and other language matters, when they would not similarly dare to explain the ordinary facts of botany and chemistry?
Critics revel in his elegant deflation of bunk theories, finding in his work "qualities in increasingly short supply in academic circles: old-fashioned moral rigor and plain old common sense" (Michiko Kakutani, the New York Times ). Some regret that Rosenbaum does not proffer his own theory clarifying the mysterious origins of Hitler's evil.