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...value in that exercise as well. You learn more about the views you hold when you're forced to defend them. Tom DeLay tried to frame the debate as a choice between relativism and absolute truths, but there were subtler arguments advanced by both sides. Smart virtuecrats like Bill Bennett argued that a leader who occasionally drank in the evenings was not impeachable, but one who drank before deciding on troop deployments maybe was. White House officials agonized in private over which was worse: that Clinton lied to them or that he failed to apologize for it. Censure ultimately died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nightmare's End | 2/22/1999 | See Source »

...come up with a knuckle-rapping censure plan that would satisfy those in both parties who do not want Clinton's acquittal to be seen as vindication. To pick up more Republican votes, Democrat Dianne Feinstein of California huddled at her desk on the Senate floor with Republican Robert Bennett of Utah during the brief trial recesses, carefully increasing the measure's wallop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Waiting for the Bell | 2/15/1999 | See Source »

...Dana B. Bennett '99, one of the comanagers of the show, said the decision was made "on behalf of the show committee in collaboration with [S. Allen] Counter," who is the director of the foundation. Counter was not available for comment yesterday afternoon...

Author: By Stephen E. Sachs, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Cultural Festival Excludes Asian Christian Group | 2/12/1999 | See Source »

...Although Bennett declined to comment on the specific rationale behind the group's decision, she said that the decisions are "not something that we take lightly...

Author: By Stephen E. Sachs, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Cultural Festival Excludes Asian Christian Group | 2/12/1999 | See Source »

...STARR'S righthand man may be ready to bolt. JACKIE BENNETT, Starr's top deputy, has interviewed with at least one Washington law firm with strong Republican credentials, promising to bring paying clients with him. Bennett's aggressive prosecutorial style has made him one of the most controversial figures in Starr's office and the one most despised by the White House. A veteran of the Justice Department's public-integrity section, Bennett has been under wraps ever since the federal judge overseeing Starr's grand jury called for an investigation of leaks from the independent counsel's shop; Bennett...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sexgate | 2/1/1999 | See Source »

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