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...drumbeat for impeachment hearings has already begun. "It will be very hard to resist the impetus" for hearings, says House Judiciary chair Henry Hyde. The process starts with a congressional investigation. It takes a majority vote of the House of Representatives to impeach, and if the vote carries, a trial is conducted by the Senate. A two-thirds vote is required to convict, which would cause the President to be removed from office. Andrew Johnson is the only President ever impeached, and the Senate failed to convict him. In the only other close call, Nixon resigned at the height...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton's Crisis: The Burden Of Proof | 2/2/1998 | See Source »

Many past editors say The Crimson also allows reporters to march to their own drumbeat while helping to write the score that combines them in a successful melody...

Author: By Nanaho Sawano, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Relationship With University Is Mix of Autonomy, Symbiosis | 1/24/1998 | See Source »

...Paul Simon's long-awaited musical The Capeman, he has a Broadway opening this month--an unusually suspenseful opening. The Capeman, which tells the story of Salvador Agron, a Puerto Rican teen who killed two white youths in a Manhattan playground in 1959, has been plagued by a drumbeat of doomsaying in the New York media, last-minute changes and a postponed opening date. The Nobel curse may be chasing Walcott, but his productivity seems unaffected. His most recent book of poetry, The Bounty, was published last summer to good reviews, and his next book--a collection of his paintings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Stockholm Syndrome: Is the Nobel a Curse? | 1/19/1998 | See Source »

...nostalgia for what the communists had done for Russia and no one liked the President--but they liked the possibility of riots and class warfare even less." "'Stick with Yeltsin and at least you'll have calm'--that was the line we wanted to convey," says Dresner. "So the drumbeat about unrest kept pounding right till the end of the run-off round, when the final TV spots were all about the Soviets' repressive rule...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RESCUING BORIS | 7/15/1996 | See Source »

...ultimate revenge of the nerd. Outplotting, outprogramming and above all outthinking his competitors, he rose to the top of an industry that is driven by shifting alliances, rapid technological changes and the steady drumbeat of Moore's law (after Intel co-founder Gordon Moore, who observed that the power of silicon chips doubles every 18 months). Nobody navigates these turbulent complexities better than Gates, who understands as few do that the great lever of wealth and power in the digital age is not hardware or even software but control over the standards to which others must adhere. Today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEADLINERS: BILL GATES | 12/25/1995 | See Source »

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