Word: knowing
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...overturn the appeals-bench ruling, Poindexter is likely to benefit from the same reasoning applied to the North case. Walsh plans to take the case to the Supreme Court, but many experts expect him to lose. Says Joseph diGenova, the former U.S. attorney in Washington: "Congress didn't know the mess it was creating when it gave the witnesses immunity...
...fact, congressional leaders were aware of the risks and gave Walsh some time to gather evidence before putting North and Poindexter in the witness chair. But the legislators could not know three years ago that the appeals court would apply more stringent standards than ever before. Republican Senator Warren Rudman of New Hampshire and Democratic Congressman Lee Hamilton of Indiana, two of the senior members on the investigating committee, argue that granting immunity was correct regardless of the ultimate impact on the criminal cases. "You had a President on the razor's edge," says Hamilton. "People were talking about impeachment...
Dark-horse candidates don't come much darker than Stanislaw Tyminski, the runner-up in Poland's presidential election last week. One of the few things voters know about him for sure is that he doesn't live in Poland. He makes his home in suburban Toronto, where he owns a computer company and heads the minuscule Libertarian Party of Canada. He won't even promise to move back to Poland if he wins this Sunday's runoff election. He does say he can lift his native land out of its present economic mess. He just...
...distribution ourselves." As far as some Soviets are concerned, that would be just fine. As Victor Shinkaretsky, a Russian Deputy, put it last week, "As long as we are forced to beg for a foreign piece of bread with butter, let's invite in those who not only know how to produce but also how to distribute...
Sobriety improved, but didn't solve, Beattie's travails, in her view because she was still codependent -- although she didn't yet know the term. She counseled spouses of alcoholics and tried to cope with her husband's drinking until she finally realized that she couldn't stop him; the two eventually divorced. "When I really let him go, I began to see that I could not control the life path of another human being." With this recognition, Beattie hunted for clues to her unhappiness and found codependency, an idea that had existed in relative obscurity in addiction circles since...