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The Washington Post 's lead forecasts that during Monday's House Judiciary Committee proceedings, more grounds for the impeachment of President Clinton will be added to the 11 counts currently pending.
I'd like to volunteer that these books have drawn some perversely unsatisfying combination reviews, most notably in the Sept. 6 New York Times , which devoted the weight of 30 column inches (by my pica rule) to admiring Celebration, U.S.A. , except for one paragraph spent denouncing The Celebration Chronicles on the astonishing grounds that Mr. Ross is a single man in an apartment without a mortgage or children, and thus had no "real stake" equipping him to comment.
For the record, I'm basically against the death penalty on the grounds that its application is discriminatory, mistaken executions of innocent people are inevitable, keeping people on death row for years during the appeal process amounts to cruel and unusual punishment, yet limiting appeals is even worse, there's no evidence that executions have any practical deterrent effect, and emotional catharsis is not a good enough reason for the state to kill people.
In its last few paragraphs, the USAT lead announces that the president of the Southern Baptist Convention, President Clinton's church and the nation's largest Protestant denomination--not to be confused with the president of the National Baptist Convention, who yesterday, reports the AP, although married, admitted having an "improper relationship" with a female senior official of the organization--has called for Clinton to resign, on the grounds that he is corrupting young people.
Local and federal prosecutors are looking for grounds to execute the three whites charged with the vicious murder of a disabled black man in Texas.
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