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...other legislators with whom Clinton had been cutting deals all week, Williams asked for no specific trade-off in return for his vote. "Pat," Clinton finally pleaded, "I can't pass this without your vote, and my presidency depends on getting this thing through." But Williams refused to commit. A liberal from a conservative state, he opposed some of the bill's spending cuts as well as the gasoline tax. So he went to the floor weighted with ambivalence, hoping to vote no but fearing to be the agent of paralysis...
Several things were illuminated by firelight last week: that Gallardo was not welcome; that someone would commit a new crime to stress that; and that it is hard to write good law accommodating the popular belief that once a sexual predator, always a sexual predator...
...have the sense that things are showing up in this abandoned property list because people are trying to commit fraud in any way," Warren says...
...scapegoat. Last week Joaquin Navarro-Valls, the Vatican's chief spokesman, said, "One would have to ask if the real culprit is not a society that is irresponsibly permissive, hyperinflated with sexuality ((and)) capable of creating circumstances that induce even people who have received a solid moral formation to commit grave moral acts...
...Colin L. Powell comes to Harvard Commencement, and instead of attacking him for his spineless refusal to commit U.S. forces to stopping the slaughter in Bosnia, you slam him for his attitude toward gays...