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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...
...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...
...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...
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...
...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...