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What President Clinton did, lie under oath in a civil trial, was wrong; it would likely qualify as perjury in a criminal trial. But impeachment is not a criminal proceeding. It is a political process meant to remove a President guilty only of high crimes and misdemeanors. And Clinton's pathetic dalliance with an intern, even if he lied about it, does not warrant impeachment--either in our eyes or in the eyes of the American people who twice elected him to the presidency...
...entire House Republican membership--earned him praise from fellow conservatives and moderates alike. DeLay's honesty was especially compelling when compared to the denials offered by other conspirators. "Whether you were on his side or not, you had to respect his courage," says Florida's Foley. "It was meant to be public humiliation, but he took it like a man, and his stature grew every day thereafter...
Smaltz's case was so weak that Espy's lawyers decided not to put on a defense. Douglas, an old friend of Espy's who was meant to be the prosecution's strongest witness, turned on Smaltz on the stand and said he'd agreed to become his "puppet" only after three years of "storm-trooper" tactics by the independent counsel. "God knows, if I had $30 million, I could find dirt on you, sir," Douglas told Smaltz in front of the jury. (The amount Smaltz actually spent, through March, was $17.5 million...
...never Dylan's desire to be an icon. He never meant to be compartmentalized as a protest-song writer. Indeed, his refusal to play at Woodstock and his later Christian revival period speak very strongly to his discomfort of being idolized as the father of a generation. Live 1966 was another repudiation. This is the angriest that you will ever hear...
...court, styled ourselves legal experts after absorbing the legal terms they shouted back and forth so that come the Monica Lewinsky scandal, we knew enough to label Linda Tripp's fun with her tape recorder "entrapment." We thought television had given us a real sense of what it meant to be a lawyer...