Word: counsels
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...forget Clinton's misdeeds, but neither are we looking forward to another limitless crusade without concern for law and decency. A Congressional investigation within the bounds of the Constitution may help restore a sense of order to this process--a sense broached by a reckless and partisan independent counsel investigation...
...this constitutional process on the back burner and concentrate on the more urgent need to press the flesh in their constituencies. It's up to the hardworking aides of the House Judiciary Committee to sweat the small stuff -- like which parts of Monica Lewinsky's testimony are credible. And counsel for both sides may well go 15 rounds on how many of those 15 impeachment charges cited Monday should be investigated. For now, it's all about finding evidence that neither the GOP nor the Democrats dispute...
...your mind out of the gutter, Ken Starr. That's the official word from Beijing. China's Office Against Pornography and Illicit Publications on Wednesday banned Chinese-language versions of the independent counsel's report. Copies of the "illicit publication" will be removed from bookstore shelves in order to prevent its salacious details from corrupting China's public morals -- and out of concern not to undermine Beijing's relationship with the White House...
Williams, the author of Eyes on the Prize, a history of the civil rights movement, recounts the now familiar saga of Marshall's step-by-step assault on Jim Crow as chief counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. But Williams also provides fresh insights into Marshall's ruthless role in the organization's tortured internal politics. Marshall had a hand in ousting not only W.E.B. DuBois, one of the N.A.A.C.P.'s founders, for his ties to communists, but also executive secretary Walter White, for committing the cardinal sin of marrying a white woman...
...never thought it would come to this, my own government actively distributing pornography in the guise of the report from independent counsel Kenneth Starr [THE STARR REPORT, Sept. 21]. To expose intimate, private relations between two consenting adults and call it a search for justice is the real treasonable offense. MICHAEL HAGER San Francisco...