Word: recessing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...There'll be no recess for the embattled President, however. Another massive data dump is coming Clinton's way on the Internet, this time from Arkansas judge Susan Webber Wright, who announced that dozens of previously sealed documents in the Paula Jones case will arrive at a computer screen near you on October 19. On top of that, Monica Lewinsky is simply swimming in big money offers to tell her story on TV -- the latest from Fox supremo Rupert Murdoch, who reportedly put a cool $3 million on the table in return for a full hour of Monica. With cable...
...Crimson was playing well before Penn'sgoal, it played superbly afterwards. As if newlyinspired, Harvard decided recess was over, andwithin 12 minutes, Moore and Miller had staked theCrimson to a permanent lead...
...Reasonable people on both sides of the aisle, however, are up for reelection. Both parties have constituencies to satisfy, and wedge issues to do that with. Republicans would like to vote for impeachment hearings before they recess, to show anti-Clinton voters they're being tough. Democrats would like a protest vote on "censure plus" at the same time, to show voters they're being tough but fair. Expect a lot more photo-ops to be denied before this matter is resolved...
Neither did the party's congressional leaders, most of whom were conspicuous in their absence from the airwaves in the aftermath of Clinton's speech. (In a stroke of luck for the President, Congress is on summer recess, its members dispersed across the country and the world.) House Democratic leader Dick Gephardt, celebrating his 32nd anniversary with his wife in France, declined CNN's offer to dispatch a satellite truck so he could appear on Larry King Live. His Senate counterpart, Tom Daschle, was spending the week cruising around his home state of South Dakota, alone and, as one aide...
...into senior statesmanship, ought to be beyond such concerns. By choice, he's not. In less than three months--36 years after he blasted into the sky inside the titanium pod of a Mercury spacecraft--he'll return aboard the relatively lavish space shuttle. Even as Congress's August recess begins and the rest of Washington's lawmakers decamp for their favorite vacation spots, Glenn will be in Houston and Florida for his most intensive month of training since being assigned to the mission...