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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...
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...
Still, both Cox and Livingston are staunch conservatives, and it appears the GOP will miss this opportunity to change the ideology of its leadership. If the midterm elections showed anything, they showed a polarized Republican party: moderate Republicans like Gov. A. Paul Cellucci and Texas Gov. George W. Bush were successful, while the more conservative wing suffered losses in gubernatorial and senate races from Alabama to California...