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...Democrats. In the Senate those include Russ Feingold of Wisconsin, a sponsor of the dying McCain-Feingold campaign- finance reform bill, as well as Daniel Moynihan of New York and Paul Wellstone of Minnesota. In the House it's California Representative Henry Waxman, lead Democrat in its fund-raising probe. This makes for the kind of situation that requires Washington memoirs of the '90s to have a separate index heading on "Clinton, temper of." Last week he was making late-night phone calls to ask Democrats what gives, sometimes at the top of his voice. To New Jersey's Robert...
...either party on the Senate Judiciary Committee provides its own list of possible criminal charges. If she cannot refute the charges within 30 days, she has 60 days to investigate the case for appointing one. During all that time, Reno would be required to shut down the grand-jury probe now under...
Democrats are playing their own game. Senate minority leader Tom Daschle of South Dakota says Democrats will not agree to fund Thompson's committee until Republicans set a date for voting on McCain-Feingold. But they are also insisting that the Thompson probe focus on congressional fund raising, knowing that is the very thing Republicans want to avoid...
...probe him for stories of burglaries, fights and the like, but the most exciting thing he can remember is the time a couple of Fox Club punchees, as part of their initiation, asked him to take a picture of them, a customer and a plastic phallus. And, he recalls, Drew Bledsoe, Jay Leno and Dean of Freshmen Elizabeth Studley Nathans have all been in to Noke's at some point. When Bledsoe stopped by, "a lot of the customers were dumbfounded," he says with modesty in his voice, "they just couldn't believe he'd come in here, to Pinocchio...
...Jews are not our enemies," says Borer. "Americans are not our enemies. Our history is not our enemy. But the way we deal or not with our own history--that could be the enemy." It will be a difficult exercise, for the Swiss seldom probe their past. "I have spent 10 years in this government," notes Foreign Minister Cotti, "and until last year no one, I mean no one, spoke of the fundamental necessity of re-examining Swiss history. Now I realize this must be done because a country that has not really faced its past cannot decide its future...