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...phrase "it depends on what the meaning of is is" from the August session with the grand jury. "That single declaration," Schippers said, "reveals more about the character of the President than perhaps anything else in the record... Can you imagine dealing with such a person on any important matter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Impeachment: Special Report Impeachment | 12/21/1998 | See Source »

...entirety at any time. "If they want to make it available for rent at Blockbuster, they can do it," confirms Georgetown University law professor Bill Kovacic. "But I doubt there's much context there that will help." All of which may explain why Boies is still smiling--no matter how many states are on his side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bill Gates' Nemesis | 12/21/1998 | See Source »

...just extrapolating," he says. In this case, the initial conditions came courtesy of Mother Russia, whose meltdown Sterling covered for Wired back in 1993. "I was watching a huge 20th century superpower fall apart at the seams," he says. Extrapolating from Moscow to the U.S. was a simple matter of wondering, like any good science-fiction writer, What...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cyberpunk Spinmeister | 12/21/1998 | See Source »

...mean, surely you didn't expect a champion headlinemaker like Francis Albert (as he always insisted I call him--or would have, I'm sure, had we ever met) to stop making headlines just because of a minor matter like death. Being dead doesn't mean you can't go right on being controversial. Look at Tom Jefferson, 172 years without a twitch, but he's in hot water. And the FBI hasn't even released his file...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ol' Black-and-Blue Eyes | 12/21/1998 | See Source »

...Democrats realize that impeachment is a done deal," says TIME congressional correspondent James Carney. "But now they see the opportunity to make the Republicans look bad." This latest twist is a bonus that comes on top of arguing what many Democrats earnestly believe to be also a matter of principle: Stand behind the President in times of foreign conflict. Republicans, meanwhile, are hobbled by the calendar, says Carney. They don't want to impeach Clinton Christmas week or New Year's week, and they don't want the impeachment vote to slip over into the new Congress next month. Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: House to Debate Impeachment Friday | 12/17/1998 | See Source »

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