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...Lewinsky to sing on behalf of House prosecutors was the first hint that he's not yet through with the show. Tuesday Starr obtained a federal court's permission to pursue presidential friend Webster Hubbell on tax evasion charges in connection with Whitewater. Add to Starr's program a contempt case against ex-Whitewater partner Susan McDougal and an obstruction of justice case against Julie Steele for having allegedly lied in the Kathleen Willey case, and, says TIME Washington correspondent Viveca Novak, "the independent counsel could stay open for years...
...competition. What has hurt both Bills most, though, isn't what they did but their similarly flawed responses to the charges against them. Clinton's seemingly false statement in a sworn deposition that he did not have sexual relations with Monica Lewinsky seemed to his critics to show contempt for the judicial process--and it now lies at the heart of his impeachment trial. The government's case against Microsoft has, in much the same way, found its greatest traction not from testimony about Gates' business practices but from excerpts of his own videotaped deposition in which he claimed...
Slap this guy down or look like wussies. Those are NATO's options as its commanders issue an urgent warning to President Slobodan Milosevic in Belgrade on Tuesday. The Serb leader has already made clear his contempt for NATO's threats by expelling the U.S. head of an observer mission following last week's massacre of 45 ethnic Albanians. "Europe is outraged, and the climate for military action is a lot stronger than it was over Iraq," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "And unlike Iraq, where there was no clear target, the Serb armor and artillery in Kosovo...
...deliberate lying, both under oath and to the people, has destroyed the essential bond between the president and the people. His behavior showed him to be weak and arrogant when voters had hoped for someone who would be strong and honest. An electorate that condones deceit deserves the contempt that such deceit implies. Even liberals who rightly believe that there are only a few moral absolutes in life should agree that while we can all tolerate some fudging and shading, we can't condone a proven...
...does the U.S., whose waffling on global warming Hertsgaard notes with contempt. He concludes his book, as is customary, with a spoonful of optimism. The marvelous energy of capitalism, he suggests, could be put to conserving energy. Insulate more; heat and cool less. Build green fridges and cars that run on nonpolluting fuel cells...