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Princeton's quick turnaround can be attributed to its change in goaltenders. Last year's starter Craig Bradley was benched in favor of freshman Dave Stathos and senior Nick Rankin. Both have performed well and have been helped by a strong offense...
WASHINGTON: Annoyed by David Kendall? Bored by Greg Craig? That's why the White House sent in its cleanup hitter: Charles Ruff. Sober, wheelchair-bound and with a lawyerly manner just nonchalant enough to be credible, Ruff also brought the Judiciary Committee something close to an admission: Perjury in a purely personal matter, Ruff claimed, is not an impeachable offense...
...This was the first time the White House even allowed for the possibility that Clinton is guilty of perjury," says TIME Washington correspondent Jay Branegan -- "that even if the President committed this felony, he shouldn't be impeached." Not that Ruff went easy on Starr. But compared to Craig and Kendall, Ruff was definitely the good cop, the cop who could understand why Republicans were so upset. He set the exculpatory bar low enough that the House's less virulent Clinton-haters can now clear it if they want to. Next week, we'll find out if any of them...
This is how the day has gone at President Clinton's impeachment hearings: At one point, North Carolina Republican Howard Coble presented Clinton lawyer Greg Craig with this riddle: "Can you all confirm or reject my anxiety process?" Nobody even blinked, which was only appropriate for a day in which everyone stuck to the script and nobody appeared to be listening. It didn't look like a judiciary committee, and it barely played...
...Still, Republicans have managed to score a few points off Craig. In a testy exchange with South Carolina's Bob Inglis, the White House lawyer got boxed into defending the perjury rap by making the argument that if you don't think you lied about something, it isn't really a lie. "Republicans made Craig defend Clinton a little more than he was prepared to do," says TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan. "They succeeded in reminding everyone about the President's evasiveness...