Word: coxes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Like most bad laws, this one began with good intentions. Twenty years and 20 independent counsels ago, Congress passed the statute to prevent a repeat of the Saturday Night Massacre. Nixon's firing of Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox made people realize that investigators had to be walled off from the investigated. So the new statute gave a special three-judge panel the power to name independent counsels when the Attorney General said it was necessary and made the counsels virtually unfireable...
...alternative, if the statute is junked, is the existing law allowing the Attorney General to appoint special prosecutors in rare instances; they have marginally less independence but have worked well in the past. Leon Jaworski was the Watergate special prosecutor after Cox. "Archibald Cox got fired, yes, but there was a hue and cry, and Leon Jaworski was appointed almost immediately," says Jim Cole of the A.B.A. task force. "He had all the power he needed and was bulletproof." Besides, few can believe that politics is absent from the process now. Seven of the 11 judges who have served...
This is Watergate manque. Starr is not Archibald Cox. Henry Hyde has Sam Ervin's white hair but not his folksy touch. There are no bipartisan Wise Men like Howard Baker, nowhere the drama of a fresh question revealing a secret White House taping system. Back then a hearing was a hearing, not a televised re-enactment of previous document dumps. And back then Sam Dash was Sam Dash. This time around he's been Starr's ethics enabler, overlooking obvious conflicts until his client went so far as to testify, against his advice, as an "aggressive advocate" for impeachment...
...compared with the 27 million Americans plodding along with home-PC modems running at 28,800 to 56,000 BPS. But cable companies are pouring billions into upgrading their networks to handle data traffic over the same wire that brings you ER and championship bass fishing. Tele-Communications Inc., Cox Communications, Comcast and more than a dozen other cable companies offer a high-speed online service called @Home that is available to about 10 million households. Time Warner Cable and MediaOne offer a similar service called Road Runner to 5 million more. Cost: about $40 a month...
...passionate minimalist rock in a time otherwise filled mostly with orchestral, pretentious crap and inoffensive James Taylor wimpery. Richman's influence is all over '77 punk, as you know if you've ever heard the Sex Pistols' massacre of "Roadrunner." And a cover of "Pablo Picasso" appeared in Alex Cox's brilliant movie Repo...