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...University of California system's governing board to issue symbolic proclamations to win favor among racial minorities disenchanted with 209. In mid-January, the UC Board of Regents held its first meeting of the year, where a group of regents hinted that they would propose a symbolic vote whereby the board would voice their support for affirmative action in UC admissions...
Last week should have been a bad one for Tom Daschle. The Senate minority leader watched his party get flattened by the Republicans on five crucial impeachment votes. According to the partisan handbook that has so often held sway over these proceedings, Daschle's final defeat--when the G.O.P. rammed through its road map for the next week--should have sent him to the microphones. There he should have struck an aggrieved pose and bloviated freely, blaming the vindictive Republicans for shattering Senate comity in their hell-bent effort to destroy the President, or some such transgression. But instead...
That's no way to avenge a lost battle--unless, of course, you have already won the war. Daschle and his 43 Democratic colleagues may have failed in their attempt to dismiss the case against Bill Clinton, but in that vote and four others, Democrats held together (well, except for the free-spirited Russ Feingold), making it virtually certain that the G.O.P. will never get the 67 votes needed to convict. Though Monica Lewinsky, Vernon Jordan and White House aide Sidney Blumenthal will be deposed this week, even stalwart Republicans privately admit that the trial is basically dead...
...took to the well of the Senate to accuse the White House of jury tampering. When Daschle, who has denounced Clinton's behavior as well as the White House legal team's hairsplitting, joined Lott in fashioning a blueprint for the proceedings that was ratified by a unanimous Senate vote, Clinton was miffed, wishing instead that Daschle had led the kind of rock throwing that had so benefited the President in the House. "The President thought it was a major stab in the back," says a White House adviser. "He felt it legitimized the process...
...Daschle and Lott slogged through two days of intense negotiations last week, they tried everything they could think of to work out their differences. At issue: whether to make the videotape of the depositions public, whether to fix a firm end date for the trial, whether to allow a vote on a "finding of fact" resolution that would in effect seal Clinton's guilt without convicting him of impeachable offenses. The two leaders talked on the phone. They passed notes. And on Thursday morning they met for 90 minutes in Daschle's conference room. Along the way, they held...