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Harvard Law Historian Raoul Berger, 72, writes persuasively that the definition was meant to be narrower. Berger is the author of a timely new book, which he hears is being photocopied all over Washington-Impeachment: The Constitutional Problems (Harvard University Press; $14.95). "Maladministration," he found, was proposed by one of the Framers as grounds for impeachment, but was dropped after James Madison complained that "so vague a term will be equivalent to a tenure during the pleasure of the Senate." Instead, the term "high crimes and misdemeanors" was substituted, and Berger shows that its meaning at the time...
...Raoul Berger, Warren Senior Fellow in American Legal History, told the Senate subcommittees investigating President Nixon's use of executive privilege Thursday that Congress is the "superior power...
...audience outside his mental amphitheater, where he performs imaginary operations on various members of the human race. Apart from his obsessive need to "reexamine all human action as animal" for his audience. Berners is attempting to justify himself before his God and his "needle-crucified" son, Raoul, who functions as a sort of Christ figure. Raoul's disappearance has forced his father to reassess his own life in terms of his childhood religion (the Protestantism of the Berne fathers) and a strange breed of reverse-Darwinism. Perversely apprenticed to the "monkey-man," he has come to view young people...
...first claimed to have received money and instructions from a shadowy French Canadian seaman named Raoul. As the case developed, the "Ray alone" theory seemed to many to have inconsistencies. In the end most are satisfactorily resolved. A false citizen-band radio report on the day of the murder, telling of a 100-m.p.h. chase after a white Mustang thought to be driven by Ray, proved to be not the work of confederates but of a teenage prankster. There is no real mystery about Ray's source of cash either: he was a professional stickup...
...then neither are the other motivations in The Jerusalem File interference from Pleasence and Williamson and several ominous appearances by the black sedan. The students drive across the dunes to meet their fate, and the movie ends as it began: badly. Raoul Coutard's photography, however, is very easy on the eyes, as is Daria Halprin, modeling the latest in kibbutz sportswear...