Word: truths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...oppressive partisanship that dominated the Starr investigation and infected the Judiciary Committee has turned the investigation of the President into a rancorous partisan fight. If it ever was one, this investigation is no longer a search for truth...
...Truth is the foundation of our justice system. Trivializing the obligation to testify truthfully in a court room, regardless of the matter under investigation, is a serious, high crime against the state. President Clinton ought to do the honorable thing and resign, but his recent public statement indicate his extreme unwilligness to so. It's time for the President finally to step up and take responsibility for his actions in the open forum that a Senate impeachment trial would provide. It seems likely that the House will vote to impeach on Thursday. The staff's protestations aside...
Between Vengeance and Forgiveness looks at the two extremes of response in their legal manifestations: vengeance in the form of justice in trials and forgiveness in the form of amnesty and reconciliation offered by "truth commissions." The Nuremberg Trials of World War II and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa serve as Professor Minow's main examples, and she examines each of their approaches in two rather lengthy chapters. She critiques them on the level of their effects on victims and survivors as well a on a national and societal level. How does each of these approaches help...
...first few chapters seem not to lead very clearly from one point to another. There is little sense of progression but rather a sense of increasing complication. There is also a distinct lack of narrative cohesion. We are never really brought close to the trials and the truth commissions--personal reflections or individual experiences are limited especially in the first few chapters, kept very short and giving us very little to latch on to. This brevity makes it difficult at times to keep reading...
...worried that Chavez plans to move the country's economy away from free markets," says TIME reporter Christina Hoag. "He's said a lot of contradictory things and nobody knows where he actually stands." The president-elect was certainly not doing much to clarify his plans late Sunday: "In truth, I'm not Chavez," he told reporters. "Chavez is a national feeling; Chavez is a project...