Word: returns
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This game was supposed to be the triumphal return of senior captain Brendan Bibro. Instead, Bibro joined the front line in time for a thrashing...
Shouldn't high crimes and misdemeanors at least be crimes in the criminal code? Once again, no: impeachment is a political, not a criminal, process, designed to remove officials who abuse their powers. Law professors use an example: if a Senator moves to the Bahamas and refuses to return, she isn't committing a crime, but she is abusing her office. Conversely, if she shoplifts from the Georgetown Gap, we probably shouldn't impeach her for such a petty crime. Says Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe: "The criminal process typically serves [to impose] punishment. Impeachment is a prophylactic device...
...other pillar of Starr's case has to do with the whole attempt to cover up the behavior Starr chronicles in Part 1. Americans may be troubled by the amount of time and energy Clinton spent last winter helping Lewinsky find a job, return gifts he had given her and prepare for her testimony in the Jones case. Clinton's lawyers maintain that in each case these were innocent activities. But Starr's report argues that with each effort, Clinton was working to conceal the affair from lawyers in the Jones case and thereby derail their lawsuit, and then derail...
...Lewinsky repeatedly told the President that she disliked her Pentagon job and wanted to return to the White House. In a recorded conversation, Ms. Lewinsky recounted one call...
...successful can Primakov be? His opening moves are not promising. He is pledging to form a kind of coalition government, apparently to please several of the Duma's parties, and that may be a formula for confusion. In a statement last week, he denied any plans to return to the Soviet past but said flatly, "The government should intervene in economic affairs and regulate them." Then he selected two men with a lot of experience with such intervention. As his first Cabinet appointment, he named Yuri Maslyukov, a Communist Party member and a former head of the Soviet State Planning...