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...least they looked dignified on television. In a flurry of ceremony Thursday, the 13 House managers were sworn in, Judiciary Committee Chair Henry Hyde read the two articles of impeachment, and Chief Justice Rehnquist was sworn in as judge by the Senate's own Methuselah, Strom Thurmond. Then the Senate jurors bent and signed the oath book, each getting to keep his own ceremonial pen. With a tap of Rehnquist's gavel, the historic moment was complete, and Senators could get back to their squabble...
...aspects of etiquette. Just as it is good to know the posture with which to guide a blind person across the street, it is good to know how to ask. MICHAEL J. EPSTEIN '00 NYANI-IISHA F. MARTIN '97 CLAUDIA MASTROIANNI '91-'94 NANCY A. SIMS '97 BARBARA A. STROM...
...number of speakers followed Rudewick, all of whom voiced a similar message. Adam Strom, a director at the educational organization Facing History and Ourselves, said, "I wish I was surprised by this...
...Strom pointed out that Shepard's death is not an isolated incident. Thousands of hate crimes occur every year in this country--the majority of which go unreported by the media, he said...
HONEST, ABE! Yes, that really was Senator Strom Thurmond cheering Nelson Mandela below a statue of Abraham Lincoln last week. Thurmond, who in 1948 ran for President as a segregationist and who in 1957 conducted a record-busting filibuster against a civil rights bill, was not always so Mandela friendly. In 1985 he voted against imposing economic sanctions on South Africa's apartheid regime and for a provision declaring Mandela's African National Congress a terrorist group; in 1986 he voted against sanctions again and backed an unsuccessful Reagan veto of the measures. But that was before Mandela...