Word: trialing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...suspense is also over in Washington, where the trial of the president began yesterday. There is no suspense surrounding the trial, whether or not witnesses are called, since everyone assumes that 67 senators will not vote to convict Clinton on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice. It's a slam dunk for the White House, but in a way this game will have three winners: the president, who will hold onto his office; the Democratic Party, which has stayed or, recently, has become doggedly loyal to him: and the Republicans, who will claim that they were both high-minded...
Call me a dreamer, but here's what I'd like to see happen. Right now, just after the trial he believes he can win has begun, would be the time for Clinton to go out on top, to resign and earn the gratitude, if not the affection, of a morally restored society. Gore, like Scottie Pippen but with a weaker jump shot, is a more than able successor. Michael Jordan has retired, and the worst he ever did was palm the ball on occasion. Couldn't this president, guilty of more than just a few lane violations, follow suit...
...What's the peg? Not so at the Journal of the American Medical Association. JAMA's longtime editor, Dr. George Lundberg, was fired on Friday for having apparently linked the publication date of an article that surveyed how college students define "having sex" to President Clinton's impeachment trial. The AMA blamed Lundberg for "inappropriately and inexcusably interjecting JAMA into the middle of a debate that has nothing to do with science or medicine." The incident is fascinating, says Time medical columnist Christine Gorman, "because there has been an attempt over the last several years for publications like JAMA...
...line -- there it was, William Jefferson Cinton. Haven't these people ever heard of spell check -- or has orthography become the Masonic handshake of the dreaded "cultural elite"? But the most sadly ironic gaffe turned up on the ceremonial pens that the senators used to sign in at the trial's commencement. Along the side ran the portentous words "The Untied States of America." Maybe the devaluation of language is the real warning we should be taking from all this...
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