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The Clintonites gave them the spin prepackaged: Clinton was "vindicated," Wright was the country's most honest Republican, and Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr had lost the legal excuse for his vendetta against the president.
3) His vendetta spin (which the New York Times called "self-serving") curdled the turn-the-other-cheek spin.
While some would love to attribute his current courageous (albeit quixotic) stance as some kind of personal vendetta against Microsoft, the diversity of his actions in the past make it plain that his concerns lie with the anti-competitive and monopolistic practices of this or any other company, and not with the company itself (or Bill Gates).
Hickman Ewing, Ken Starr's chief deputy, is profiled: A born-again Christian and a moralist, Ewing is engaged in a vendetta against the Clintons.
What I want to know is, why does she have this vendetta against guys named Bill?