CNN's Barbara Starr, David Ariosto, Carma Hassan and Greg Botelho contributed to this report.

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CNN's David Ariosto, Tom Cohen, Barbara Starr, Keating Holland, Nick Paton Walsh and journalist Masoud Popalzai contributed to this report.

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In a press release, Pepperdine said Starr informed the university president David Davenport of his decision April 2, but made the decision official in a letter dated Thursday.

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CNN's Dan Rivers, Elise Labott, David Mattingly, Athena Jones, Barbara Starr, Jethro Mullen, Tim Lister and Faith Karimi contributed to this report, as did journalists Peter Taggert from Belfast and Said Ben Ali from Algiers.

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Cast: Kristen Bell, Mamie Gummer, Martin Starr, Alex Shaffer, Amy Madigan, David Lambert.

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Attorney Mark Geragos claims Independent Counsel Ken Starr issued the summons to McDougal in response to a complaint Geragos filed Tuesday asking a judge to bar Starr from investigating allegations against key Whitewater witness, David Hale.

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On October 5th, when House Majority Counsel David Schippers first made his presentation to the House Judiciary Committee, he discarded two of Mr. Starr's theories and invented a new one of his own.

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