Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...trade a life of relative privilege for one of unceasing struggle. Of royal lineage, President Mandela was groomed from birth to take a high office in regional government. He left home, however, to become a lawyer, fighting abject poverty while earning his degree. Eventually he launched a promising legal career that could have spared him some of the trials he saw his fellow South Africans suffer...
...fact that he's not an official member of President Clinton's legal team has not kept Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz from entering the fray surrounding the White House scandal...
Dershowitz has been a key figure in the Monica media maelstrom since its earliest days, appearing as a legal analyst on numerous network talk shows-including MSNBC's live town hall broadcast from the Kennedy School Wednesday night...
Dershowitz expressed doubts that there were substantial legal grounds to impeach, arguing that the charge of perjury wasn't deemed an impeachable offense when President Nixon was found to have lied on his tax returns...
...such a deal is unlikely to be inked any time soon. Most Republicans feel that something more than censure is warranted -- like maybe picking up the tab for the approximately $4 million spent nailing down Clinton's evasions since January. Perhaps more importantly, there's a whole nest of legal ramifications should the President publicly admit that he lied under oath. Ken Starr's grand jury is still in session, for one. Whatever deal Congress makes, Starr could still indict Clinton after he leaves office. Paula Jones, too, would be blissfully happy with an admission of perjury. It could help...