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Tuesday's rally at Harvard was one of several held on campuses across the country. Also on Tuesday, 250 Princeton students protested impeachment. On Monday, Nobel laureate Toni Morrison joined 750 New York University (NYU) students in urging the House not to impeach the president...
Still, other Republican leaders yesterday bluntly accused Clinton of risking American lives for his own political gain. We find this assertion both weak and offensive. It is weak because it has become clear that there are more than enough votes in the House to impeach Clinton. If anything, the intense skepticism regarding his motives will only harden sentiment against him in the G.O.P. It is offensive because despite the President's sexual immorality, we cannot seriously entertain the notion that Clinton would employ military action to save his skin...
...Democrats realize that impeachment is a done deal," says TIME congressional correspondent James Carney. "But now they see the opportunity to make the Republicans look bad." This latest twist is a bonus that comes on top of arguing what many Democrats earnestly believe to be also a matter of principle: Stand behind the President in times of foreign conflict. Republicans, meanwhile, are hobbled by the calendar, says Carney. They don't want to impeach Clinton Christmas week or New Year's week, and they don't want the impeachment vote to slip over into the new Congress next month. Washington...
Some participants even mocked proimpeachmentparticipants. Matthew N. Stoller '00 held aplacard that read "Impeach Clinton... I am anIdiot...
Besides, the DeLay camp says, a vote to impeach the President is the perfect inoculation for moderate Republicans under assault from conservatives in their districts. Assuming, as almost everyone in Washington does, that Clinton would survive a Senate trial, moderates who voted to impeach wouldn't have to worry about a backlash. "What DeLay's been saying is, 'This vote isn't going to hurt you; it will mean conservatives won't bother you anymore,'" says a source close to the Texan. For some moderates, that could be an important consideration. Marge Roukema, a New Jersey Republican known...