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...week with a primal scream. Dick Gephardt and Tom Daschle got together last Monday morning to warn the White House in the most public way possible that unless they reeled in the lawyers and stopped all this "legally accurate" nonsense, the road to impeachment would be short and slick. "Dick and Tom went public," said a colleague, "because the private counseling wasn't working...
...Lewinsky scandal drags on, I continue to be mystified as to why the media is completely ignoring a little thing called "history." Are we so ignorant as to believe that our own Slick Willie is the first president with severe moral and ethical problems, and whose presidency was plagued by political scandal...
Enough with the Ken Starr bashing! Starr was given a difficult and thankless job: he had to uncover the misdeeds of an elusive foe. Considering the power of the President, it is doubtful that a less determined person would have been able to force Slick Willie to confess. Obviously the process has been disruptive and costly, but what would Americans have had Starr do? If we don't want to know when politicians break the law or commit immoral acts, then we'd better get rid of the special-prosecutor law. Otherwise, let's not shoot the messenger just because...
President Clinton failed to be "Slick Willy" by picking the wrong girl. Were I a man, I would not have chosen Monica Lewinsky in a million years. ALBERTA CRESCENZI Rome...
There was dissension among the investigators as well, with the beat cops complaining about being big-footed by detectives. Englewood residents generally trust the uniformed cops, calling the detectives "slick boys." And despite public avowals, there was doubt among the detectives themselves. A violent-crimes detective called TIME before the charges were dropped to track down a potential witness mentioned in the magazine. He admitted that he believed the police may have accused at least one of the suspects wrongly. The older boy, he said, "got scared and rode away" when Ryan fell from her bike...