Word: presented
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...leaving open the possibility of witnesses and giving the House managers room to make their case, the vote looked like more of a victory for the hard-liners than the Democrats. But the fine print holds the trapdoors: the resolution forces the House prosecutors to present their case first, over the course of as long as 24 hours, without calling witnesses. Then comes the White House, followed by the Senators' questions. And only then do the House managers get a chance to argue in favor of hearing testimony...
...discovery in 1918 of Franklin's affair with her social secretary. Today we would call the Roosevelts a dysfunctional couple. Yet they constructed rich and varied lives for themselves, filling the void in their marriage with other relationships. But such a union would not be possible today. No present-day occupants of the White House could live as freely and creatively as the Roosevelts did during their 12-year tenure and keep their private life--and wounds--private until years after their death...
...profile on a biblical figure you go to great lengths to explain and quote the views of liberal scholars and archaeologists. You should give equal space to the opinions of conservative scholars and archaeologists. TIME seems to have a mission of discrediting beliefs, because you do so little to present the other side. ERNEST SCALABRIN Northvale...
Overlooked in the arguments about the morality of artificially reproducing life is the fact that, at present, cloning is a very inefficient procedure. The incidence of death among fetuses and offspring produced by cloning is much higher than it is through natural reproduction--roughly 10 times as high as normal before birth and three times as high after birth in our studies at Roslin. Distressing enough for those working with animals, these failure rates surely render unthinkable the notion of applying such treatment to humans...
...Pizza Hut in Moscow that he made world famous in a TV commercial last year closed its doors. Now he's trying to make a little scratch and regain a measure of respect at home--where the vast majority of his compatriots continue to revile him for causing their present woes--with the latest volume in his post-Politburo oeuvre. Titled Thoughts on the Past and the Future, the 300-page "textbook" consists of the former General Secretary's deep thoughts on his country and the 20th century as the millennium approaches. Although Columbia University Press is to publish...