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...auditing the tax returns of political opponents-have been true of past Presidents as well. "Impeachment should be limited to serious crimes as defined in the general criminal law and beyond that, to only very serious abuses of public office," says Schmidt. "Impeachment and removal can't be haphazard. They should not impeach one President unless they are willing to take the position that any President engaged in the same conduct should be impeached...
Even before the first word of testimony, many trials pass through a critical yet haphazard phase: the selection of jurors. In major cases prosecutors sometimes do enlist police or the FBI to check out potential jurors; defense attorneys occasionally commission their own investigations when their clients can foot the bill. But the final decision about a juror is usually based on a large dose of intuition-bolstered, when possible, by past experience...
...building T-group togetherness. The actors live harder than the parts they play, high all the time off the magic of movie-making. The movie itself is pieced together out of bits of the actors' lives that develop in the course of its making. It's rather a haphazard day-by-day process, highly prone to accidents that to derail it irrevocably--all very nicely de-mystified. It's the personality of Truffaut though, more than anything else, that makes Day for Night. You can't help but like him. No matter his conventional tastes, his whimsies and antis...
...overall atmosphere, neither tragic nor pastoral, settles somewhere in the netherworld of the mundane. A fairly simple set is not quite bare enough to avoid being distractingly eclectic. Nice touches, such as burning torches in the king's chambers and a flower-bedecked arbor in Bohemia, are offset by haphazard positioning of the settings and the action. The climactic resurrection of Hermione is blunted by clumsy staging. Though occasional flute passages are delightful, the music is generally sloppy...
...questions of definition and purpose straight. If one is to go under the title, Harvey Cox, Radical Theologian, one is bound to explain what one holds the label to mean. Here Cox sets out to explore the dimensions of a "Theology of Liberation." If the work is haphazard, it doesn't lack attempted breadth...