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...what circumstances should Congress be able to impeach the President? No doubt tired of parsing legalisms after months of work, they took only about five minutes to dispense with the constitutional crisis. They had already decided that treason and bribery were no-brainers--definitely grounds for impeachment--but George Mason of Virginia said he was concerned that those two crimes didn't capture "many great and dangerous offenses." So he suggested adding "maladministration" to the list of impeachable no-nos. When others complained that the term was too vague, he offered this legal delicacy: "other high crimes and misdemeanors...
This is a story of a pot of gold, but instead of a rainbow, there's a lawsuit over it. Next Monday JANN WENNER is due to show up in Idaho with a mason jar of old gold coins as the first step in a court case over who owns it. Construction worker GREGORY CORLISS, above, right, claims he was digging a driveway on Wenner's woodsy hideaway in Idaho when he noticed some coins in the soil. On further inspection, he and his boss, LARRY ANDERSON, found a mason jar full of them, dating from 1857 to 1914. Corliss...
...cunning--that she was led to such a degrading fantasy, herself as garbage. But the unambiguous casualty was a white assistant prosecutor from Dutchess County named Steven Pagones. Tawana's was not a harmless lie. Once the story went public, it attracted three professional race men named C. Vernon Mason, Alton Maddox and Al Sharpton, lawyers who arrived to work as Tawana's handlers and to demagogue the case in the media. The three identified Pagones as one of the white rapists. Pagones has spent 10 years trying to clear his name...
...moved from a detention center--where she was serving time for killing her daughter and committing credit-card fraud--to a facility that allows children, so that she could take custody of her fourth child, Cornilous, 2. In an earlier, related action, Montgomery County (Md.) circuit court Judge Michael Mason had ruled that Pixley was free of the postpartum depression that had caused her to kill her daughter, and that it was in Cornilous' "best interest" that he be returned to his biological mother...
David Letterman's show has been knocked off the air in seven southern and midwestern cities -- including Wichita, Mobile and Mason City -- this week because the stations' owner, Nick Evans (of Spartan Communications in Spartanburg, S.C.), had trouble getting tickets for people who wanted to see the "Late Show" taped in New York. Instead, viewers of Evans' stations are being treated to a mixture of infomercials, sitcoms such as "Mama's Family" and "Married With Children," and "Judge Judy." Evans concedes that a ticket dispute was behind his decision, but also says he's unhappy with Dave's low ratings...