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Passante and Markham pointed to the secretive nature of the meetings themselves as an example of this problem. In Saturday's meeting, Markham was not allowed to be present during the period in which the proposal was debated and voted upon...
...time Chief Justice William Rehnquist administers the oath given to Senators before an impeachment trial, G.O.P. conservatives may have torpedoed Lott's plan. But as the majority leader is quick to point out, in the absence of an agreed-upon schedule, there is nothing to prevent a coalition of Democrats and moderate Republicans from putting together the simple majority of 51 votes needed to short-circuit a trial altogether and move immediately toward censure. His plan, Lott argues, at least gives House prosecutors a chance to make the case for conviction and then allows Senators to vote on whether...
...hoping to find at least one of your experts calling Moses what he really was--a general at war with a powerful enemy. Moses was more like Alexander the Great than the key religious figure he is purported to be. Moses had no qualms about asking God to visit upon his enemies the worst of suffering and disease, even death. His God was ruthless and vengeful. Just because Moses invoked God going into battle doesn't make him a respectable religious figure. D. SREENIVASA RAO North Andover, Mass...
...able to alter our DNA radically, encoding our visions and vanities while concocting new life-forms. When Dr. Frankenstein made his monster, he wrestled with the moral issue of whether he should allow it to reproduce: "Had I the right, for my own benefit, to inflict the curse upon everlasting generations?" Will such questions require us to develop new moral philosophies...
...White House legal team bears the schizophrenic burden of planning for the worst while hoping for the best. But it's clearly the Senate's show now, and after nearly morphing into a mad House this week, it had to act its age and take whatever it could agree upon. The White House and Henry Hyde are just going to have to live with that...