Word: internment
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...under oath in a civil trial, was wrong; it would likely qualify as perjury in a criminal trial. But impeachment is not a criminal proceeding. It is a political process meant to remove a President guilty only of high crimes and misdemeanors. And Clinton's pathetic dalliance with an intern, even if he lied about it, does not warrant impeachment--either in our eyes or in the eyes of the American people who twice elected him to the presidency...
President Clinton ought to be punished for all he has done--for accepting the advances of a 21-year-old intern, cheating on his wife in the Oval Office, lying under oath, lying to the American people. But impeachment is simply an inappropriate response; it is too grave an action for so base a trail of indiscretions...
Harvard," she says, "especially because I worked as an intern for [a Washington, D.C. rape crisis center] this past summer, where I really had to work with issues concerning discrimination based on gender, sexual orientation and race...
Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy's piece on the "Fall of the House of Newt" was excellent. However, I have difficulty with a simplistic assertion early in the article: "Clinton has an affair with an intern, and Gingrich loses his job over it." Gingrich's position as a politician should not be judged against Clinton's private activities. Gingrich and the Republicans approached the midterm elections with the complete deck of cards up their sleeve. The public betrayal by Democrats of Clinton to protect their own political careers provided the Republicans with invaluable free negative advertising. Throughout the campaign...
...hear all the little details like those "double clicks" that an unsuspecting Lewinsky notes at one point, which the duplicitous Tripp is able to pass off as "my gum." And, of course, we get to hear Monica's voice for the first time. Guessing what the ex-White House intern sounds like has, it seems, become America's favorite parlor game. A recent CNN/USA Today poll shows that 53 percent of respondents suspected she possesed a "high and childish" voice. They were half right. As it turns out, Lewinsky's tone oscillates between excitability and solemnity -- in short, just like...