Word: judgment
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...gave the President a role in the film without his authorization, and has sent Warner Brothers a letter charging the film improperly manipulated the President's statements and used his image for commercial purposes. A Warner Brothers spokeswoman says the company wants Clinton to see the film before passing judgment. The more disturbing news, of course, is that Zemeckis didn't have to ask Clinton to play a part in order to cast him using existing footage. The President of the United States gives such bland speeches that with a few snips they can just as easily be about national...
...probe to become a California law-school dean. (A chorus of jeers forced him to reconsider.) And in a major victory last week, he won the Supreme Court's tacit approval to go rifling through the notes of White House lawyers--then was again upended by his own poor judgment. The embarrassment came when the Washington Post reported that Starr investigators seemed to have strayed from the probe's central mission by questioning Arkansas state troopers about women with whom Clinton may have had extramarital affairs when he was Governor. The investigators also tracked down some of the alleged girlfriends...
...Starr? He continues his probe of Hubbell, who left the Justice Department en route to jail in 1994 but detoured into work for a host of companies friendly to the Democratic Party. Starr has just hired three seasoned prosecutors, in part because he needs the benefit of their judgment as the probe wraps up. His court victory this week could be viewed as a renewed fishing license--allowing him to subpoena notes and depose White House lawyers--but that would be a mistake. After last week, even Starr must know that time is running...
...first hearing, the court's dual, unanimous decisions on assisted suicide (the second addressed a New York case) constituted a heavy weight indeed for the practice's advocates. Led by Chief Justice William Rehnquist, whose wife died in 1991 after fighting ovarian cancer, the court delivered a much anticipated judgment on one of the era's most wrenching dilemmas. "The history of the law's treatment of assisted suicide in this country [is]...rejection of nearly all efforts to permit it," Rehnquist wrote. "The asserted 'right' to assistance in committing suicide is not a fundamental liberty interest..." The Justices also...
...allow assisted suicide, as Oregon did in 1994. The right Rehnquist denied was so broadly stated that more modest constitutional claims may someday be affirmed. And five Justices, a majority, wrote concurring opinions that further qualified his meaning. The court's fondest hope appeared to be that its judgment, as Rehnquist wrote, "permits this debate to continue, as it should in a democratic society." The court also seemed to encourage further work with pain-managing drugs...