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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...could prostrate myself before you in this letter, talk of how repentant I meant to be during those few hours of service, enumerate my transgressions and show you that I do not deserve "the serve decree". But I figure that if I could convince Harvey C. Mansfield '53 to change my Moral Reasoning grade from a C+ to an A-, certainly I can get you to look at this a little differently...
...President's allies of declaring open season on anyone who presumed to sit in judgment of him. The disclosure of Chairman Henry Hyde's adultery of 30 years past in the online magazine Salon represented a knife in the heart of compromise. The House G.O.P. leadership fired off a letter to the FBI asking it to investigate the White House for trying to intimidate lawmakers, without being able to prove it was behind it. The White House put out frantic calls to its Hill Democrats trying to assure them that it hadn't leaked the story--Podesta called Hyde himself...
Like most people, i'm sorry that a man as decent as house Judiciary chairman Henry Hyde came to be outed for infidelity. I got the same letter about Hyde's affair from Florida retiree Norman Sommer that 57 other reporters received. I tossed it into the large pile of mail I will never answer, not because it was written in crayon (actually, it was neatly typed, lucid and provided names) but because one person's bad behavior doesn't mitigate another's. Nor does Hyde's affair take away from his qualifications to chair possible impeachment proceedings...
...century." And while Sosa's 62nd homer didn't technically break Maris' 37-year-old record but rather tied McGwire's five-day-old mark, it still seemed undercelebrated: no commissioner at the game, no Marises in the stands, no infrared marked balls, no vintage Corvette. In a letter to commissioner Bud Selig, which Jesse Jackson shared with TIME, he wrote, "Sammy deserves the same infrastructure support [as McGwire], but he has not received it. While he will receive many honors in the coming days, it is a little after the fact. There was time to anticipate...
...expect a quick return to stability," HMC reported in its annual letter. "We are prepared for the possibility that things will get worse before they get better...