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...unconstitutional: since it could pass with a simple majority, they see it as a backdoor way of convicting but not removing Clinton, without reaching the constitutional threshold of a two-thirds majority. To block such a measure, Daschle and the Democrats are sharpening their partisan shivs, threatening a string of amendments that would tie up the Senate chamber indefinitely. They could, says Daschle, submit the President's budget as an amendment and ask the clerk to read...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fasten Your Seat Belts | 2/8/1999 | See Source »

...sets out with its cargo of broken hearts across the frozen streams of New Jersey and the ghostly, moonlit fields of Pennsylvania snow country. She is going to see a son who did 14 years for a horrific sexual assault, was freed in 1994, then committed a string of crimes even more ghastly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Snow, in Ice, in Rain, One Mother's Trip | 2/8/1999 | See Source »

...contrast, the voting was festive. Villagers chatted and schoolchildren played. Above them, paper bunting hanging on a string bore a hortatory slogan: EXERCISE YOUR SACRED RIGHT TO CAST YOUR BALLOT! Loudspeakers blared circa-1970s revolutionary songs as people marked the ballots on their lap. Not all residents were enthused. "These officials are all the same," a wiry farmer sniffed. "I'm not even voting." He complained angrily about the depressed price of pork and lambasted the "Zhu Ba" (Pork Despot), a local entrepreneur who has monopolized the buying and selling of pigs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eyewitness: An Experiment in Voting, If Not Democracy | 2/1/1999 | See Source »

FILED FOR DIVORCE. JERRY HALL, 42, leggy Texan model; from MICK JAGGER, 55, of the Rolling Stones; in London. After a long string of well-publicized marital crises, Hall is reportedly asking for $50 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Jan. 25, 1999 | 1/25/1999 | See Source »

...late '98--on the attitudes of U.S. college students toward sex. Among the findings: 59% of the student group did not view a person who has had oral sex as having "had sex," which could be seen as supportive of Bill Clinton. The firing is the latest in a string of controversies. In 1997 the AMA agreed to endorse Sunbeam medical equipment in what many saw as a conflict of interest. Last year it alienated conservatives by supporting a health-care proposal to make HMOs liable for malpractice. Lundberg's lawyer disparaged the group for interfering in the "inviolable ground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The AMA Gets (Even More) Political | 1/25/1999 | See Source »

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