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...Democrats hope people will also focus on Starr's de facto messenger in Congress, House Speaker Newt Gingrich. Attacking Gingrich is a standard Democratic ploy, but in the Lewinsky affair it had been hard to do as long as Gingrich stayed behind the curtain, venturing forth only to make high-minded statements about the need for civility at a moment of this historic magnitude. But on Wednesday he went before the microphones--without Judiciary committee chairman Henry Hyde--and trampled all over the idea of a censure deal that would pre-empt impeachment proceedings. He also ruminated in a closed...
...single strangest thing about the week that led up to the release of Bill Clinton's grand jury testimony was the consensus around Washington. It was something like a certainty that the tapes would be the coup de grace. Clinton would destroy himself by twitching, equivocating and storming out of the room. To believe that, all you had to do was ignore the weight of public opinion that's been pressing upon this event all year. Most Americans already know what they dislike about the President. What was brought home by the Clinton squirm session, and then by the transcripts...
...Year's Eve, Brazilians pay homage to Iemanja, the African queen of the sea. Millions of revelers clad entirely in white, a symbol of purity in Afro-Brazilian culture, throng the beaches of Rio de Janeiro to placate Iemanja and court good luck by lighting candles and tossing flowers, cosmetics and other gifts into the ocean for the vain goddess...
...mail [at Harvard] is that it's a de-centralized system," she says...
...DE JANEIRO: Congratulate the Brazilian people for their farsightedness: The current global contagion that has pushed Brazil's government to the brink of disaster has visited equal hardship on its people, yet the nation is poised to reelect President Fernando Enrique Cardoso with the full knowledge that he has even deeper hardship in store. Rarely have the IMF and its usual victims -- ordinary citizens -- been in such agreement...