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Starr death

Kenneth Starr before the House Judiciary Committee's impeachment hearing of Bill Clinton in 1988.

The death of Kenneth Starr this week is yet another case of a person who long outlived a passing fame, and receded back into relative obscurity — only for their demise to remind us once again of the time they rose to prominence.

Starr’s name became a household word when he was appointed to investigate then-President Bill Clinton’s involvement in Whitewater, a convoluted real estate deal, and other broadly related matters.