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Which is why Judiciary Committee chairman Henry Hyde last week tried to shift blame for a protracted process to the White House. Just a week after his chief counsel, David Schippers, had outlined 15 charges against the President, Hyde was telling reporters he planned to "streamline" the inquiry by limiting the case to three core allegations--that the President lied, obstructed justice and tampered with witnesses. But any hope of finishing the inquiry by year's end, Hyde warned, depended on the White House's willingness to stipulate that at least some of the facts in Starr's report...
...extent of corruption at a national level emerged last week in a report on the state purchase of grain. Out of a total of $65 billion set aside to buy grain from farmers since 1992, $25 billion--40%--had disappeared. Investigators found that much of the missing money had gone into luxury condominiums, futures trading and the purchase of cars and mobile phones--the kind of graft that makes the short-tempered Zhu go ballistic...
Until now. In three separate studies published in the Archives of General Psychiatry last week, researchers report not only that light therapy works better than a placebo but that treatment is usually more effective in the early morning than in the evening. In two of the groups, the placebo problem was resolved by telling patients they were comparing light boxes to a new anti-depressant device that emits negatively charged ions. The third used the timing of light therapy as the control...
...does the press keep calling Kenneth W. Starr the independent counsel [SPECIAL REPORT, Sept. 28]? He may be restless, boundless and vindictive, but he is definitely not independent. Starr's efforts should not be rewarded by Clinton's resignation or impeachment. ALEXANDRE A. ROCHA Brasilia
What weighs more than the Starr Report's measly 6-plus lbs.? If you can answer that question (hint: 3,600 readers responded to our SEPT. 21 coverage of Starr's findings), you're ready for further grilling. By way of study materials, the Letters column has already offered up digests of more than 14,000 opinions we've received on the characters in the drama as well as thematic briefs on all the scandal's subplots. You know what sex is, and it's our bet you know what "is" is. But can you second-guess what...