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...trying to convince his colleagues that presidential punishment, like revenge, is a dish best served cold. Specter's plan: Wait until Bill Clinton leaves office in 2001, then prosecute him as a regular citizen for perjury and obstruction of justice -? presuming, of course, that Clinton's successor does not pardon him first. If the GOP can just cool its heels, Specter says, a jail sentence for the President is "a distinct possibility" -? as opposed to impeachment, which will "come to naught...
...Court ruling that Pinochet enjoys immunity for crimes allegedly committed as head of state. "The legal issues at stake here have global implications," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "The argument being presented is that a crime against humanity cannot enjoy immunity in any circumstances. Setting that precedent would pardon dictators from Idi Amin to Karadzic -- it even would have pardoned Hitler." Meanwhile, France, Switzerland and Sweden are all completing their own extradition requests. Take a number and stand in line...
Despite these praise-worthy qualities, The Tennis Partner is certainly not served up and followed through perfectly, pardon the pun. Though you don't feel that you need to know the differences between the serving styles of John McEnroe and Bjorn Borg to understand the book, the incessant barrage of tennis lingo (as well as medical jargon) can become slightly tedious. The analogies and comparisons between tennis, medicine and life sometimes seem amazingly twisted and contrived, and sometimes annoyingly simple. To truly enjoy the book you will have to find it in your heart to forgive the occasional trite phrase...
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Many types of excuses have gone through distinct stages of popularity in recent memory. In the arena of malfeasance, for a while, childhood abuse was the excuse du jour. Then O.J. Simpson helped reinvigorate racial disadvantage as a form of pardon. Now, as the president struggles to conceal his criminal culpability behind the right to privacy, a new excuse for the common man's ineptitude has been ensconced...