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...reason: enlightened self-interest. With pollsters and even donors telling party leaders they had better find a horse other than the President's troubles to ride, yet another plea for healing was in order. The first step in that direction is changing the public face of the GOP from Gingrich and Hyde to the more palatable (and focus-grouped) Jennifer Dunn and Steve Largent. Following the speech, the two rising young stars gave a bright and shiny infomercial of a Republican response that did get across the message that Republicans are for reconciliation. Sort of. So let the healing begin...
Three months after a January 1998 article in TIME by Christopher John Farley and James Willwerth that drew national attention to the case, the Louisiana state supreme court ordered a new trial. Cousin angrily refused a deal prosecutors offered last week: time served in exchange for a no-contest plea to manslaughter. With the new trial set to begin this week, New Orleans district attorney Harry Connick Sr. blinked and dropped the charges...
...Harvard graduate whose guilty plea enabled him to avoid a possible death penalty for an 18-year terror campaign...
...sentences that sucked the air out of the House chamber. "I can only challenge you in such fashion that I am willing to heed my own words," he said, still addressing Clinton. At that there was an audible, collective gasp. At least one Republican lawmaker softly spoke the plea...
Then Ruff made his plea: "Let each member assume that Ms. Lewinsky's version of the events is correct, and then ask, 'Am I prepared to impeach the President because after having admitted having engaged in egregiously wrongful conduct, he falsely described the particulars of that conduct?'" It was a lawyer's last stand, a final appeal to save a client from the congressional equivalent of indictment. In effect, Ruff was saying, "You know he lied and we know he lied. The only disagreement is what we ought to do about...