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Orchard Bar, 200 Orchard St., between Houston and Stanton Streets (673-5350): The desolate, gray-tinged terraria lining the walls set the tone: the crowd here shows about as much energy as a bunch of sunning reptiles...
...Daisy A. Stanton '00 is one student who called the Dorm Crew office to complain. When she and her roommates moved into a Claverly Hall room that had been occupied last semester, she was disappointed to find that Dorm Crew had not come...
...feel like a character in a novel." (a) Lucianne Goldberg (b) Bill Clinton (c) Paula Jones (d) Jack Stanton...
Technically, Johnson was impeached for firing his Secretary of War, Edwin Stanton, who was a Radical Republican sympathizer. Johnson's enemies said the dismissal violated the Tenure of Office Act, a law that was later judged to be unconstitutional. The legislators threw in a few other charges, including conspiracy and bringing Congress into disrepute. "A shaggy mountain of malice had panted, heaved and labored," an early Johnson biographer fulminated, "and this small and very scaly mouse was the result...
...charges against Johnson were weak, his defense was at times Clintonian. His lawyers argued he could not have "conspired" with Stanton's successor because a Commander in Chief gives orders, which his subordinate has no choice but to accept. And they argued that the federal conspiracy law did not apply, because it covered only states and "territories," and Washington was neither. Johnson tried to build popular support by launching a speaking tour--dubbed his "Swing Around the Circle"--but he was heckled in St. Louis, Mo., and told by an Indianapolis, Ind., mob to "shut up." Like some of Clinton...