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...potential 2 1/2-party system and a new national vehicle available to future presidential candidates. This could be a boon in the millennial year 2000, especially if the face-off between the Republican Congress and the Democratic President leads only to bipartisan scandals, bipartisan economic mismanagement and further public contempt. Reform will be in the wings--literally--and it is even conceivable that the coming confrontation between Bill Clinton and the 105th Congress could provide the catalyst for America's next crisis--which in turn might produce its next great leader...
...Dean of Harvard College, when faced with such a situation, to privately contact the three students in question and express his concerns to them without bitterly assigning blame. All Lewis has accomplished by acting in this manner is to further convince the student body that he holds them in contempt to a degree most of us usually reserve for people who have done us some grievous wrong in the past...
...will not need others to correct or complement him. He will have overcome, to a scandalous extent, ignorance of what is good and bad, better and worse, important and trivial, right and wrong. He will not become indiscriminate, but will learn how to discriminate justly. If he shows contempt for others, he will do it with reason and not bigotry. He will not hold opinions but know truth...
LITTLE ROCK: Susan McDougal, the Clintons' convicted former business partner, was held in contempt of court Wednesday for refusing to answer questions before the Whitewater grand jury investigating President and Hillary Clinton's land deals. Prosecutors unsuccessfully asked Mrs. McDougal three questions before seeking a contempt charge. Two dealt with whether Clinton knew about a loan and a piece of property in which the Whitewater corporation had an interest, she said. The third, Mrs. McDougal said, asked, "Did William Jefferson Clinton testify truthfully before your trial?" Judge Susan Webber Wright said Mrs. McDougal faces up to 18 months in prison...
LITTLE ROCK: Susan McDougal, the Clintons' convicted former business partner, was held in contempt of court Wednesday for refusing to answer questions before the Whitewater grand jury investigating President and Hillary Clinton's land deals. Prosecutors unsuccessfully asked Mrs. McDougal three questions before seeking a contempt charge. Two dealt with whether Clinton knew about a loan and a piece of property in which the Whitewater corporation had an interest, she said. The third, Mrs. McDougal said, asked, "Did William Jefferson Clinton testify truthfully before your trial?" Judge Susan Webber Wright said Mrs. McDougal faces up to 18 months in prison...