Word: minding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...House impeachment vote finally did feel historic. But only if you kept in mind just how soiled and cartwheeling real events can be. "History...is indeed little more than a chronicle of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind," wrote Edward Gibbon, author of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and a man who died 200 years before Monica Lewinsky met Bill Clinton...
...Berger carefully described as "any other factors that should lead us to do anything differently." What he meant was the certainty of a political storm in Washington about the timing of the attacks. Despite the President's notorious ability to compartmentalize, holding one set of problems separate in his mind from another, there were no compartments so airtight that they could keep him from noticing that a bombing campaign--even a well-justified one--would both point up the dignity of his role as Commander in Chief and perhaps also slow the impeachment vote. So Clinton did virtually...
...fallout from Livingston's announcement. The charges against Clinton boiled down to lying under oath about a sexual relationship with Lewinsky. The spectacle of House Republicans applauding one adulterer just before condemning another was not calculated to help them take the high ground. "The word that comes to mind is hypocrite," said Congresswoman Maxine Waters, a California Democrat. That was the setting for the impeachment debate that began Friday morning. Ray LaHood, the Illinois Congressman chosen by Livingston to preside over the debate, felt compelled to open with the warning to House members that they could not make personally disparaging...
...Republicans have to keep in mind that a prolonged trial might also turn public opinion more strongly against them, a trend some polls are already showing. All the same, it doesn't give the White House much comfort when even Democrats like Bob Kerrey of Nebraska warn that Clinton should not assume an acquittal. Wellstone guesses there may be about 50 Senators like himself who would support a compromise censure. But, he adds, "exactly how we get to that point, I'm not sure." And Mike DeWine, a Republican Senator from Ohio who is opposed to censure on constitutional grounds...
...Once a mainstay of Merchant-Ivory productions, Hopkins has more recently appeared in such claptrap as the critically reviled Meet Joe Black. He says his project Titus Andronicus, currently filming in Rome, will be his last (his publicist confirmed his words but expressed hope that he would change his mind). In the interview Hopkins also revealed that his 25-year marriage is not preventing him from spending time with a woman who is not his spouse. "It's all part of the understanding with my wife that I'm a wanderer," he said. "But I still go back to London...