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Starr has throughout his probe repeatedly been accused of being manipulative and overzealous, and some of these charges will soon get a new airing, perhaps as soon as next week at Whitewater partner Susan McDougal's contempt trial. "Her defense will highlight her contention--after being tried three times--that he has been trying to get her to lie against Clinton," says Novak. "Her lawyers will be putting Starr's office on trial and may even call him." Clinton's acquittal in the impeachment proceedings weakened Starr politically, and he does not noticeably lack enemies who would take advantage...
...students obviously felt that the Faculty was subject to intimidation, what does this tell us about the moral climate we have spawned? Is it simply coincidence that the Faculty voted according to the demonstrators' wishes, or did the students expect their intimidation to work? Will this now encourage greater contempt for a faculty that is presumed to vote according to the dictates of a mob? Although Faculty may well have cast their votes irrespective of the chanting, the demonstrators ensured the corruption of the process, cultivating disrespect for the deliberative procedure itself...
...students obviously felt that the Faculty was subject to intimidation, what does this tell us about the moral climate we have spawned? Is it simply coincidence that the Faculty voted according to the demonstrators' wishes, or did the students expect their intimidation to work? Will this now encourage greater contempt for a faculty that is presumed to vote according to the dictates of a mob? Although Faculty may well have cast their votes irrespective of the chanting, the demonstrators ensured the corruption of the process, cultivating disrespect for the deliberative procedure itself...
...than Hillary to fill the media vacuum left by That Woman? And what better way to create a diversion from the ongoing Clintonian sleaze watch, including the newly published allegation of a Clinton sexual assault in 1978 and the possibility that Judge Susan Webber Wright will hold him in contempt for his testimony in the Paula Jones case? For the White House staff, Hillary for Senate is a much needed balm. "Whether it's serious or not," says Clinton spokesman Joe Lockhart...
Surely such contempt is validated and deepened now when he sees how unfailingly his tricksterism gets him through--a lechering Bugs Bunny who, at the end of this ghastly cartoon, flourishes a cigar instead of a carrot. (Henry Hyde, having taken over the Elmer Fudd role from Ken Starr, slumps off, looking perplexed.) I tell myself to get beyond this miasma--to think of the future. I will get over it...but not for a while. I try to think about forgiveness but am brought short by the knowledge that it requires repentance, and Clinton is congenitally unrepentant. Fish gotta...