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By some accounts, Clinton's chief contribution at Wye was his refusal to buckle in two showdowns with Netanyahu.
The press in Europe gave big advance billing Wednesday to constitutional showdowns on both sides of the Atlantic--the opening Thursday of Bill Clinton's impeachment trial and a vote the same day in the European Parliament in Strasbourg that could result in the dismissal of all 20 members of the European Union's ruling commission.
He seems more comfortable with the before and after--with the back and forth of white-shoe lawyers who never leave the office--than with showdowns for the judge and jury.