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...allocated on flights (the number varies according to demand for the flight, with the goal of maximizing revenue). And the airlines have drained most of the spontaneity from the nation's leisure-time travel, with those money-saving but anxiety-producing "nonrefundable" fares, which require long advance purchases and slap heavy penalties for even a slight change in plans. (The Internet has lately helped reverse this a bit, offering customers a chance to bid for cheap last-minute fares...
...equally adamant in their support. The President's job approval rating clings onto those mid-60s for dear life, say CBS, NBC and ABC. What's more, the largest percentage of those polls -- between 59 and 67 -- favor neither impeachment nor resignation but a third option: congressional censure, a slap on the wrist. That's the closest there is to a consensus in the country right now, and it could be that the President's seemingly untenable public posture -- sending his lawyers onto talk shows to argue that perjury is not perjury -- may just be the first step...
After seven long months, what we got was four minutes of petulance and prevarication. It felt less like a speech than a slap...
...obviously does not remember or respect the ancestors who sacrificed their lives to make it possible for him to hold his position. The endurance, motivation and dedication of our ancestors to fight for equality aided Thomas in pulling himself out of poverty. Now he gives those ancestors a blatant slap in the face. MANIKO BARTHELEMY Landover...
WASHINGTON: Could Congress find a neat conclusion to the Lewinsky mess -- by giving Bill Clinton a 164-year-old slap on the wrist? Congressional censure of the President: It hasn't been used since Andrew Jackson, has absolutely no legal ramifications, and 55 percent of people say they want the President to get one. "Impeachment is the nuclear option," says TIME Washington correspondent Jay Branegan. "It's not proportional to the crime. Censure is, and it's very much a possibility. There are current precedents, too: Newt Gingrich got censured, and that didn't diminish his stature...