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This time, however, the biggest scandal stemmed not from Clinton's sexual misdemeanors, but from him issuing a slew of last-minute pardons (a form of executive clemency which essentially "erases" a previous criminal conviction and restores citizenship rights). On his last day in office, the former president surprised the nation (and sometimes even his Justice Department staff) by granting 140 pardons and commuting 36 jail sentences...
...doesn't need a big staff. His contingent of 50 is less than half the size of his predecessor's and fully meshed into the Bush operation. Except for Mary Matalin, a former talk-show host and G.O.P. operative who is his senior counselor, Cheney doesn't have a slew of political advisers weighing the impact of each development on his future. "He speaks with the authority of the President," says Matalin, "because everyone understands the Vice President has no personal agenda." According to Libby and Matalin, that means their boss will spend far less time than past Vice Presidents...
...which has been used in Chicago, is known as distributed generation. Just as the computer industry has evolved from a centralized, mainframe universe to a networked PC environment, a small but growing portion of the electricity industry is moving the power source away from one massive plant to a slew of smaller, cleaner turbines dotting the landscape...
Nestled around the big stands are a slew of small-time operators and hopefuls. They don't have the budgets to match the big boys, so they have to use their imaginations, a process that results in bikini-clad girls draped over cut-outs of show stars as though they were the latest Ford Thunderbird. Other stands touting wildlife programs offered you the exciting opportunity to be photographed with a small mammal and a show host, usually clad in what looked like a jungle outfit from...
Last Friday, Bill Clinton confessed wrongdoing in his 1998 Paula Jones deposition, fulfilling his part of a deal cut with Independent Counsel Robert Ray and bringing an end to a probe that had dragged on through most of his presidency. But on Saturday, issuing a slew of pardons, Clinton took a major swipe at all the independent counsels who had dogged him and his cabinet. Former HUD secretary Henry Cisneros and his onetime mistress were pardoned. Several figures who were squeezed by longtime Whitewater independent counsel Kenneth Starr, Ray's predecessor - Steve Smith, Robert Palmer, Chris Wade and Susan McDougal...