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Fred Barnes and Susan Page ( Late Edition ) declare that impeachment proceedings occurring after the November elections are less likely to unseat Clinton, while George Stephanopoulos ( This Week ) insists that a late start will permit the Republicans to "go full bore" without fear of offending short-memoried voters with their partisanship.
In March 2001, Judge Royce Lamberth, chief judge of the FISA Court, chastised the FBI, sending a letter to Ashcroft announcing he was banning an offending supervisory agent from appearing before the court.
(In an important subclass of therapeutic legislation, however, stagily offending an unpopular interest group--e.g.
"Only Paris has no Algeria plan," ran a headline in Germany's Die Welt over a story about France's fear of offending its former North African colony.
Dissociation with the producer of the offending temptation--a $400 jacket, say--becomes a coping mechanism, and rumor and conspiracy theories are only a step away.