Word: counseling
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...reputation for restraint. He crafted the famous Hyde amendment--six lines he hastily scribbled on legal paper in 1976 that deny low-income women federal funds for abortions. He was a robust supporter of Oliver North during the Iran-contra affair, and he led the calls for an independent counsel to look into Bill Clinton's 1996 fund-raising practices. But opponents speak of him with respect. Says Kate Michelman, president of the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League: "He has been a fierce opponent of a woman's right to choose, but he is also...
...what? Most Republicans now concede that any effort to unseat Clinton will almost certainly fail, barring a Republican landslide in the November midterm election or some unforeseen bombshell from independent counsel Ken Starr. Even if the House votes articles of impeachment against the President, and even if the Republicans pick up as many as five seats in the Senate this fall, they will still be seven short of what the Senate needs to convict Clinton and remove him from office. "Do the math," says a Republican Senate aide. "Clinton may have to go through the disgrace of articles...
...word of the Freud exhibit began to emerge in 1995, one combative anti-Freudian, Peter Swales, a media-savvy Freud scholar and former "business assistant" to the Rolling Stones, charged that the advisory counsel was stacked in favor of the Freudians. He circulated a petition, signed by 50 academics, requesting representation of the "full spectrum of informed opinion" on Freud. Curator Michael Roth, while insisting that he had consulted with a range of scholars from the outset, responded by adding two Freud critics to the advisory panel, even as he questioned the motives of some of the protesters...
Goodheart worked in the General Counsel's office in 1991 and since 1992, has been the special assistant to the president, a job that familiarized him with the needs and organization of the University...
...Will Democrats call even the elusive Mr. Starr to account for his actions? That's up to Judiciary chair Henry Hyde and ranking member John Conyers, drawing up subpoenas together or -- as is more likely -- unilaterally. Barring the release of a politically timed second Starr report, which the independent counsel says he is still mulling over, there'll be few earth-shaking developments until after the November 3 elections. Will the committee then live up to Hyde's "fondest hope," and finish up by New Year's? Don't hold your breath...