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...down the number of hostile votes in what may become Clinton's impeachment jury. But for the President, the New York race is personal. As chairman of the Senate Whitewater hearings in 1995 and '96, D'Amato said he wanted "every child in America to know how to spell subpoena." That kind of talk helped make this race a presidential grudge match. Clinton traveled to New York last week to raise $1 million for D'Amato's challenger, Representative Charles Schumer, and both the President and First Lady will visit again before Election Day. "D'Amato is like a roach...
Until then, Gingrich's lieutenants in Congress are moving to quiet the Democrats' cries of unfairness. Last week they reversed themselves to let the Democrats review documents Starr did not submit to Congress; they gave the Democrats subpoena power and, in hopes of calming everyone's nerves, pledged to press Starr for some indication of what he has left to deliver. Said Henry Hyde, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee: "I am doing everything but one-armed pushups to be fair, and I would do those if I could...
Benhabib says she was particularly struck byStarr's ability to subpoena family members totestify against one another in a non-criminalcase...
...viewed as--grounds for impeachment, epic tabloid sideshow or the latest outbreak of puritan hysteria in the culture that gave us The Scarlet Letter--it already provides a cautionary tale about the dangers of instant intimacy. In the socially transient, lonely world of Washington, where betrayal is only a subpoena away, even between the closest confidants, and a flurry of quickies in a private bathroom can turn a couple, in Monica's words, into "sexual soul mates," fast friendship may be the ultimate danger...
Though they made no direct comments about the content of discussions with Clinton, critics charge they have abrogated the preacher-penitent privilege, a bond so sacred it can't be broken even by a subpoena. "It would serve Clinton's cause well if it were made public," says the Rev. Robert Schuller, who has long advised Clinton. "It's very difficult to buy the genuineness of the repentance if it comes after the person has been caught, but it's easy for me to buy the sincerity of tears in private to a pastor...