Word: trialing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...what have we learned two months into this decade's Trial of the Century? For one thing, if all the Justice Department had to do to win its antitrust case was to embarrass Microsoft, Bill Gates would be in Washington right now cutting a deal. The low-light of the trial so far has been videotaped testimony in which Gates pureed meaning in a manner that surely made that other legally troubled Bill envious. The Master of the Desktop came across as either unbelievably ignorant about his company's operations and the suit against it or as a possible perjurer...
...best trial barometer is the market, where the serious bets are being placed on the trial's outcome. MSFT traded at around 104 on October 19, the beginning of the trial. Last Thursday, it closed at 138 11/16. Somewhere, Bill Gates is smiling...
...Lott's plan would allow the wavering Senate to get the trial over with quickly and push the whole complicated mess into the history books by mid-month. Since Lott already sees that the Senate is almost certain to acquit, he's eager to minimize the damage to Senate Republicans that would be caused by a prolonged march toward a Clinton victory. The President's upcoming schedule is also a strong reason to speed things up. After the State of the Union speech January 19th, a forum in which he traditionally shines, Clinton will spend time touring the country memorializing...
...just politics. With the Pope in town on January 26 as the star of a perfectly-orchestrated series of Clinton photo-ops, the Senate is, well, too scared to have witnesses souring the national mood with tales of oral sex and other White House malfeasances. Making it a real trial, with real witnesses -- however better that might play in the history books -- just isn't a priority. And the Constitution doesn't mind...
...Maybe an impeachment trial should be like a normal trial, but it's not." says TIME Washington deputy bureau chief Jef McAllister. "It was designed as a political process, and because of that we're allowed to suspend our normal concerns about the justice system." But should we? Even Andrew Johnson's impeachment, which was even more politicized than Clinton's, had witnesses, giving it at least the trappings of due process. Well, as McAllister points out, in 1868 there was no independent counsel. "Ken Starr's already done all the work." As for cross-examining Starr's sources...