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Burleigh did confirm a report in yesterday's Yale Daily News, which said that police were focusing their investigations on a three-block area around the site of Jovin's murder...
This is how the day has gone at President Clinton's impeachment hearings: At one point, North Carolina Republican Howard Coble presented Clinton lawyer Greg Craig with this riddle: "Can you all confirm or reject my anxiety process?" Nobody even blinked, which was only appropriate for a day in which everyone stuck to the script and nobody appeared to be listening. It didn't look like a judiciary committee, and it barely played...
...point to "never again, as long as I am Speaker, make a speech without commenting" on the Monica mess and to start calling a crime a crime. Gingrich lieutenant majority whip Tom DeLay set up a Monica war room, the first place for the press to call to confirm when Monica delivered that fateful piece of pizza to the Oval Office or the date the fed-up Secret Service agent kept her waiting at the gate in sweltering heat until she looked "like she went a couple of rounds with Muhammad Ali." It was Gingrich who orchestrated the early stages...
Hyde meanwhile sent the White House a list of 81 questions, asking that the President confirm or deny specific findings in Starr's report. Some of the "requests for admission" ask whether he lied in his deposition in the Paula Jones case or in his testimony before Starr's grand jury. White House lawyers say they are working on quick replies, but don't expect them to send any that admit to outright perjury or obstruction of justice. The Republican strategy, cooked up before the election, seemed to be that eliciting denials from the White House on some issues would...
...budding geniuses, but nobody made these kids better students--they were born that way. Each one is self-motivated and can obviously grasp any task at hand. Each could have been left in a box with a book and would have ended up self-taught. You did, however, confirm my belief that most teachers are only capable of imparting information to ready-made A and B students. Of course, there are a few good teachers, but they cannot overcome the inept system we have. After nine years of watching my dyslexic son feel dumber and dumber, I am taking...