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Robert Byrd's announcement that he'll make a motion to dismiss President Clinton's impeachment trial next week.
ET on April 1, CNN reported that Judge Susan Webber Wright was granting President Clinton's motion to dismiss the Paula Jones sexual harassment case.
In 1992, Clinton would have been harder to dismiss as a conservative in denial.
Critics dismiss the fourth installment in the Batman series as nonsensical kitsch, a "wild, campy costume party" (Janet Maslin, the New York Times ). Director Joel Schumacher ( A Time to Kill ), a former window dresser, leans heavily on high-concept get-ups (villainess Uma Thurman sports a suit made from 450 Santa Claus wigs) in the apparent hope of deflecting attention from a script that "has the eerie feeling of having no beginning, no middle and no end" (Kenneth Turan, the Los Angeles Times ). Still, his overwrought attempts to make the film fun--fast editing, crashingly loud sound effects--end up making it "a punishing ordeal" (Alex Ross, Slate).
And so, a couple of years ago, when the measured rate of productivity growth showed little sign of increasing, it was natural for people like me to dismiss the New Paradigm argument as silly.