Word: fatefulness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stakes are at their highest. Clinton is one step from being removed; his fate is in the hands of 100 Senators, whom Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist is due to swear in as jurors tomorrow...
...have a freer hand for pursuing its destructive aims. Iraq had defied the will of the international community for months, yet now the U.S. is going it almost alone. And, of course, the greatest irony of all: after the most decisive military campaign of the Clinton presidency, the fate of the American President appeared more precarious than that of Saddam Hussein...
...went silent. Members looked around at one another, their eyes wide. "When I did an early interview with the media after announcing my candidacy for Speaker, I told a reporter that I was running for Speaker, not sainthood. There was a reason for those words." More stunned looks. "My fate is in your hands," he concluded...
Though less partisan than the House, the Senate that will now decide Clinton's fate is a place he has never had easy dealings with. Even Democrats there felt betrayed by him on welfare reform and Medicare cuts. To act as his emissary to the Senate, Clinton would like to bring on board George Mitchell, the former Senate majority leader, whose job will be largely to explore what many on the President's team believe is just the slimmest chance of a deal that would fend off a full trial. The President's lawyers, David Kendall, Charles Ruff and Greg...
...LIVE FLESH It could be a 1940s Hollywood melodrama or an 1840s French farce, but Pedro Almodovar's gaudy thriller is as modern as Monica. His characters hurl themselves off fate's precipice to find love, lust, deliverance. A wise woman tells her beau that "making love involves two people." That's right: delirious director, dazzled viewer...