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...William Jefferson Clinton has undermined the integrity of his office, has brought disrepute on the Presidency, has betrayed his trust as President, and has acted in a manner subversive of the rule of law and justice, to the manifest injury of the people of the United States." --FROM THE ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT APPROVED BY THE HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE...
...another hearing will take place to decide whether Pinochet, as a former head of state, still enjoys sovereign immunity, a British law that protects foreign dignitaries visiting England. The legal questions are complex, and how a new panel will rule is anybody's guess. "It's like replaying a football match," notes TIME London bureau chief Barry Hillenbrand. "There's no guarantee it will still turn out 3-2." Pinochet's attorneys are appealing extradition on several other fronts as well. Clearly, the only people who are guaranteed to do well in this case are Pinochet's lawyers...
Wang Youcai and Qin Yongmin, two of China's most prominent dissidents, went on trial Thursday in separate cities for trying to set up an opposition group to Communist party rule. The men mounted their own defense -- after authorities scared away potential lawyers -- on charges that could put them behind bars for life. China is sending out yet again "one of its periodical signals that it will not tolerate opposition beyond a certain point," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell...
...four of the six seasons that Harvard has won the Ivy League title, it has compiled a non-conference mark of 25-22, barely above. 500. Last season's 10-2 pre-Ivy record was the exception, not the rule, and even then the Crimson was not playing good basketball...
Amid this moral chaos, the arrest of Pinochet is a triumph of arbitrariness. Well, no. There is one rule that emerges from this case. The moralists, so jubilant at Pinochet's comeuppance, might ponder its perversity: rulers with blood on their hands are advised to remain in power. For any tyrant, the best protection from the kind of justice being visited upon Pinochet is to continue to tyrannize...