Word: delay
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...Williams & Connolly, David Kendall's firm, says Ruth, "they litigate every case the same way, and that's hardball. Give 'em nothing, tell 'em nothing, delay, fight at every turn. But when you're defending the President, you can't run a defense like you would for a private citizen," he says. Result: "Just like in the White House, after all the attacks, the prosecutor gets his own bunker mentality and starts to figure, O.K., this is a war." And by the time the White House began attacking Starr for zealotry and moonlighting and hiring aggressive deputies, Starr felt...
That's because Starr was in a new place too. However useful as a pressure tactic, actually indicting Lewinsky for perjury would have guaranteed a long trial and an even longer delay in the prosecutor's pursuit of his real targets. Moreover, now that he had set the clock ticking on Clinton's testimony, it was more important than ever that he hear from Monica first. She was the force who would move the President before his grand jurors. As a Lewinsky lawyer told TIME, "They needed us. They were driven...
Ironically, much of this consolidation is the result of the 1996 Telecommunications Act, a law that purported to stop this kind of customer hoarding. It hasn't worked. Says Senator John McCain: "The FCC's obfuscation and delay have blocked competition, so when companies can't get into each other's businesses, they buy in." Is there any chance of a federal rewrite to fix the problems? Says McCain: "The horse has left the barn, which I deeply regret...
What's emerging is a Barr-backed plan that would just delay the proposal a year or so -- which is unacceptable to opponents of any national ID plan. "Certainly we advocate a complete repeal. Anything short of that would be a defeat," says Patrick Poole, deputy director of the Free Congress Foundation's Center for Technology Policy. Poole has found an ally in Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas), who's introduced legislation to rescind the Transportation Department plan. Paul blames Congress for passing the law in the first place, then trying to shift the blame to the Transportation Department...
...across to the scene as medics poured in from the ambulances outside. He worked to resuscitate first one victim, then another. "I was really just focused on keeping their hearts and lungs moving," he said. Gibson was hustled out to a helicopter and whisked away to Washington Hospital Center; DeLay gathered his staff to pray for the officer. Frist meanwhile stayed with Weston, unaware that he was the shooter, helping to keep him ventilated as they rode in the ambulance to D.C. General Hospital...