Word: asking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That's a lot to ask. Still, we can at least ask that harsh verdicts not be rendered with the gleeful zeal that has been emanating from some parts of Washington these days. In a judge, a touch of indifference isn't an altogether bad thing...
...President remain in office if the government can't function with him there. So a thorough housecleaning would have to come next. Republicans may demand that anyone found to have leaked damaging material about Hyde or other lawmakers be fired. Or Clinton may have to do something really hard: ask for the resignation of the fixers, the enablers, people who have served him most faithfully, like his longtime confidant Bruce Lindsey...
...notably about how much the committee will rely on the Starr report for its decisions. Chairman Henry Hyde has said there is no need to "reinvent the wheel." But Frank has characterized the report as "the most negative case possible." Will the committee call its own witnesses? Will it ask Clinton or Lewinsky to testify? Should it consider censure or limit itself to impeachment? In the no-rules world of impeachment, the committee will even have to decide what standard of proof to use. Will it be beyond a reasonable doubt, clear and convincing evidence or something else entirely...
Coincidence? That depends on whom you ask. Pixar head Steven Jobs was said to be "furious" when he found out that DreamWorks was working on a movie about ants. It is an open secret that in background sessions with reporters at numerous publications, he has been complaining that Katzenberg swiped the idea for Antz on his way out the door from Disney in 1994 or sometime thereafter. Katzenberg's camp angrily denies that he ever heard of the Bugs project while at Disney and says that in fact the idea for Antz was pitched to Katzenberg by a DreamWorks executive...
...video of Bill Clinton's grand-jury testimony is absorbed by the public, Americans will have to ask themselves an important question. No, not whether he should remain in office but, rather, Is the tape embarrassing enough to dislodge one of these blush-inducing groaners from...