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Over the next few days, the debate over the Lewinsky mess will narrow to this difficult question: Did Clinton behave so badly that he abused the power of his office? History offers little guidance, but one of the most recent impeachments doesn't bode well for him: U.S. District Judge Walter Nixon of Mississippi was impeached and removed in 1989. He had allegedly accepted a bribe, but that's not what got him impeached. Lying to the grand jury...
...Repindo Panca Group, headed by his second son Tareq Kamal Habibie. Many of the more than 66 companies in these two groups have fed off contracts from the state enterprises Habibie oversaw as Technology Minister, says sociologist George Aditjondro of the University of Newcastle in Australia. That does not bode well for a clean government under a Habibie presidency. "The Habibie-family companies are so deeply involved with the Suharto-family companies," says Aditjondro, that Habibie naturally "will try to protect Suharto and his family from impeachment...
...Dartboard are fascinated and have been flipping through facebooks searching for our blockmates' middle initials ever since we heard the news. And we wonder: How does this bode for Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III, or for Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles? Then again, everything's a little bit weirder in California...
...recent episodes, one in professional golf and one in women's college basketball, demonstrate the remarkable inroads made into sports by liberal compassion, the only virtue acknowledged in our society today. The episodes bode ill for the magnificence of sports...
California is once again at the forefront of American political battles, and the confrontation that is emerging doesn't bode well for the state of education in this Union. On June 2, Proposition 227 will be voted on by Californians. The so-called "English for the Children" initiative would largely scrap bilingual education in public schools and replace it with a one-year long English immersion program. The initiative is an attempt to deal with a monolithic educational system that is not sufficiently servicing the limited English proficient (LEP) students it claims to help. (The program at present...