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...indictment--but removal (conviction) is decided after a Senate trial. The framers were clear that impeachment is a solemn matter; to its credit, the House has generally taken the responsibility seriously. It has voted to impeach only one President and 15 other men--13 judges; President Ulysses Grant's Secretary of War; and Senator William Blount of Tennessee, who tried in the 1790s to get Indian tribes to invade Florida and Louisiana (then owned by Spain), kill a bunch of people and force the survivors' allegiance to Britain. Inciting transcontinental war--now that sounds like an impeachable offense. Alas...
PENITENT HUGH GRANT DRAMATIC GESTURE After his arrest in 1995 for lewd conduct with a prostitute, he appears on the Tonight Show to confess his guilt...
Give me four years, $40 million, the subpoena power of the U.S. and the authority to grant immunity to anyone, and I will find out what happened to Roanoke's "Lost Colony," Amelia Earhart and Jimmy Hoffa. DON BARKER Nashville, Tenn...
...next few weeks, the Financial Aid Office will be contacting each family on assistance to inform them of a redistribution in student packages. The total amount of aid will not increase, but the amount of grant money will--by $2,000. Students will have the choice of putting that money toward a decrease in loan debt or the elimination a term-time or work-study...
Additionally, the situations of families who may have just missed receiving financial aid should be reevaluated. With the additional funds, perhaps some of these families might be included in the pool of those who already benefit from grant assistance...