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...than three years ago now that Indonesians ended the 30-year tenure of the dictator Suharto, the world?s fourth most-populous nation has yet to emerge from the turbulent political vacuum that followed. That much was clear Monday when Indonesia's parliament voted for a second time to impeach President Abdurrahman Wahid on corruption allegations, opening the way for impeachment proceedings to begin within six weeks. The ailing cleric now appears politically doomed, but the consequences of his ouster could further deepen rather than resolve Indonesia?s political crisis...
There is not much you can do to an ex-President. The realists know it's too late to impeach him and too hard to indict him, since bribery is a difficult charge to prove. But with the news of a broader investigation, the focus of the scandal expands to include not just the Clinton who is worried about his legacy but also the one who is worried about her future. So many of the people who were pardoned had connections to New York that it was only a matter of time before the spotlight expanded from the former President...
Following last year's election, a group of council members led by campaign workers for rival campaigns tried to impeach newly-elected vice president John A. Burton '01, claiming that he had violated campaign spending limits by taking buttons for campaign use from another student group...
...virtually everyone who knows Clinton says the outbursts, like summer storms, quickly pass, and he's no Nixon, nursing deep hatreds. "Bill Clinton does not believe that impeachment will be in the first paragraph of his obituary," says his friend Hollywood producer Linda Bloodworth Thomason. "It will be for some of his enemies, because that's the most significant thing in their lives. I don't think Bill Clinton believes that impeachment will be the most significant thing in his life." Payback is not part of the postpresidential agenda. Friends say Clinton, a great rationalizer about his own actions, tries...
...rails, are "part of one big corporate party," with no real differences. Indeed, Nader argues that former President George Bush was better than Bill Clinton is on issues like occupational safety. Nader also tells TIME that if he had been in the Senate, he would have voted to impeach Clinton: "He disgraced the office...