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WASHINGTON: Call it the Arlen Specter solution. As the impeachment process begins to collapse for want of GOP support, the Republican senator (and former prosecutor) from Pennsylvania is trying to convince his colleagues that presidential punishment, like revenge, is a dish best served cold. Specter's plan: Wait until Bill Clinton leaves office in 2001, then prosecute him as a regular citizen for perjury and obstruction of justice -? presuming, of course, that Clinton's successor does not pardon him first. If the GOP can just cool its heels, Specter says, a jail sentence for the President is "a distinct possibility...
...Cold War by utilizing "Marxist theory." If anything, they were victims of it. By risking their lives during the protests against the Communist coup members, the Russian people were rejecting Marxism in practice. They were tired of religious oppression, of the arrogant, elitist Communist party and of the specter of the return of Stalinism...
...Though the group channels most of its campaign gifts to Democrats, H.R.C. is determined to prove it is not an auxiliary of the Democratic Party. Its board includes former G.O.P. Congressman Steve Gunderson. Of the 200 candidates the group endorsed this year, 14 were Republicans, including Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter, a chief sponsor of the hate-crimes bill. Now the group is locked in an internal struggle over whether to endorse New York Senator Alfonse D'Amato over his Democratic rival, Representative Charles Schumer. Though conservative on abortion rights and other liberal litmus tests, D'Amato has in recent years...
...President may have been exhibiting the sort of values you might find in a glossy pamphlet wrapped in brown paper at the newstand. Not only do those of us who trudged through the snows of New Hampshire that day feel like fools, but we're faced with the specter of a Democratic Party that has, in George Stephanopoulos' words, become "the party of consensual sex with interns and lying about it." Democrats must now struggle to regain the family values mantle recklessly surrendered by their leader...
...stout one's specter continued to pervade the set of the "new" Psycho, which wrapped production last week. Prior to each scene, Van Sant and his crew huddled around a video monitor to watch similar bits of the 1960 version, making sure every moment was rendered with respect, if not calibrated precision. "The word remake is a fallacy," says cinematographer Christopher Doyle. "What we're trying to do is revoke and evoke." Besides running the older movie on a DVD player, Van Sant tacked photos of various freeze-frames on a nearby bulletin board as guides. "The concept...