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EDITORIAL ]
Sara Ladenheim, )
Rob Gioielli, Vieu
Kevin Langston, Assist a,
Emily Streyer, Assistan
Jennifer Stanley, Special
Trial too in
to he disrpi
It's been almost ^MjaBrT-grTr
one year since the IHHUm
Lewinsky scandal The impeac*
broke, and now the /^/ 0Jpre<
whole affair has Qmm
reached its last possible
episode.
Within about a ? , .
month we will People shou
know'the fate of " attention bee
William Jefferson the histor
Clinton. It's quite signifies
amazing that a I-:-/-'"' ' . scandal
that has
been so remarkably trashy has ul
ended up in such a historical event m
as an impeachment trial. wl
This is only the second time a
president has been officially im- m
peached. The other was Andrew hi
Johnson, who was impeached but co
missed being removed from office in
by one vote. in
For most of this scandal, any- at
thing to do with Monica Lewin- tu
sky was only fit to be in a tabloid.
But since it is now being discussed re
in the Senate as part of an im- fr
peachment trial, it will be read in L(
the most traditional of history di
books. in
So even though we're all
been tired of this entire thing since Lt
only a few months after it hap- th
pened, all of a sudden it's impor- T1
tant. ha
The members of the Senate, da
who act as jurors in this trial, have th
three options after they have heard
Iraqi diploi
lacks perm
In the years hmhmww
since the Persian HHHUmmS
Gulf War, we have 0ur contin
let Saddam Hussem
build weapons 1
in his armories,
support in his peo
pie, and sympathy
from his former WetwedtO
trading partners. with Saddam
Because the atldfora
U.S. did not cripple
his regime when it
had the chance, foolishly assum- lea
ing (or hoping) that his own peo- wa
pie would put him out of power, he
we now have our present situation
of inspectors who are losing ing
a game of musical weapon facto- or (
ries and bombings which do not sioi
hurt Saddam himself, but rather tim
serve to rally the people behind
him in his struggle with the bar- the
baric Americans. the
We should have learned from che
the Vietnam conflict that we can- we*
not win a war in a foreign land by she
periodically sprinkling its civil- abc
ians with bombs. We have no rea- end
Thc(5mic
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| all the evidence. V i
Hi They can do nothbment
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sentially have been VS-V
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iccil Republicans have >
ice. said they would
? ; '1 vote for censure if
it included the stipation
that Clinton publicly adit
that he did lie under oath,
hich he has denied up till now.
The final option would be re- I
oval from office. This has never JL J
ippened before and would heme
of the most important events ,
U.S. political history. By fore- Ih about was
g Clinton to step down, the Sen- _|_ integrity o,
e would essentially be over
irning two national elections. jjjwpg^
ached such an important event
om such seedy origins as the f
jwinsky scandal. But Clinton
d lie under oath and there are I
iwinsky and Ken Starr,'watch
le importance of this event Sara Ladenl
is moved beyond tabloid scan- Columnist
1 to something that will decide
e destiny of our country. thing that was
democracy, the p
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had thoughtfully
son to think that ?^a con^lse(
anything short of a tance at discuss
nine full-fledged war
Ur will stop Saddam ^
bIrMl- Hussein. He is
clever, patient,
powerful, nursing
a recovering ego,
deal and he has some- A s we have
l once thing to prove to Z\ 2000, the
// the world. He will -L Astantlyri
continue to push us
until either we
ve (again), or we go to a full jflPPIHj
r. He would prefer the former;
is prepared for the latter. fKliik. ^
Our present strategy of bombwhen
Saddam gets too cheeky
)ur government needs a divern
from home should not con- ^
We cannot leave the world at
mercy of man who is mad at re.v,n
world and holds biological, ? umms
imical, and possibly nuclear
l if j \\t ^ noia was spawn
.pons in his hands. We need to hecies that
it him up for good instead of
nium as an end
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s I ranted and raved failures proved to me that his quest to
iting time, money and portray the leader of the free world as
a what seemed to me to a sexual Pariah was self-serving.
be a presi- his rather ordinary, boring exisId
e n t i a 1 tence, Kenneth Starr was seeking fame
witch hunt, and notoriety by exploiting sex as a tool
I believed, to oust his political foes,
from the All this was occurring while I was
bottom of not in America, and to see it on every
my soul, television on two different continents
that the on- was quite disturbing.
1 y reason Israeli television interviewed memKenneth
bers of my traveling group about the
Starr was scandal instead of about the purpose
heim Placed on an(j meaning of our visit. The name
uus eariu "Monica Lewinsky" was on the lips of
ZIZ. ^aS ? 6 every foreigner I encountered.
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citizens in America endmg his actions as being his own
itantly bash the man nal busln??e
to refer to as the "rea- never scarred to me at that time
i should remain legal." even Question his testimony. He was
il enough to make even being attacked because it was an elecproud.
tion yearKenneth
Starr had al- ^he president having to answer to
id-best. In a compari- ^e independent counsel made me lose
snt Clinton that Time faith in our system. ,
' organized for the ben- I had believed the president to be a
i public, Starr's reluc- person that was not only respected and i
sing his own personal protected by the public he represents,
but also a person whose moral decisions
Y2K problem isn'
come closer to the year ^ so heavily on may be our downfall,
tension level is con- The "Y2K" (Year 2000) dilemma has
sing over a particular raised the eyebrows of several. We are
. subject Be it left with one year to solve this problem
for religious and people are getting edgy.
J or techno- With the growing popularity of cornlogical
rea- puters, we have used them for everysons,
people thing from bank accounts to stocks. Beare
in a cause many computers aren't
delirious programmed to recognize the year 2000 1
frenzy over (they will simply reset to 1900), it is be- 1
the new mil- Hevable that everything will go nuts, j
| 1 e n n 1 u m oume say me power grias will snut
JhH (which does down, bank statements will be incornot
numeri- rect> shipping services will be hindered, j
'on cally begin and much more. Some believe some
until 2001). thing so simple as a date in a comput
This para- er can create this mess.
ted from the ancient It was only a matter of time before j.
pointed to the millen- the militia groups got involved. They ?
to life as we know it. believe that under a cloak of darkness, t
etworks have broad- nations will wage war on one another,
f these prophets and This time, the playing field will be lev- t
ctions. Supposed signs el, and the militia groups are prepare
beginning of the end. ing themselves.
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hese signs have been this panic is a load of bull. I don't think t
taring. a guy who roamed the earth thousands s
5 are supposed to bring of years ago could have any clue v
irth-shattering war. about the fate of humanity. The propheiged
from the creation cies are so vague that anybody can read )resence
of a Middle into them what they want. It's like read- r
he end result is sup- ing a fortune cookie. t(
clear holocaust that I also don't think the computer prob- p
th in ruins. Obvious- lem will lead to our downfall. There
conflict with Iraq has must be some dork out there with the t*
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were above that of the average Amer
ican.
Then, as quickly as it was pol
ished by Starr's actions, the golden im
age of the president seemed to tarnish
No longer was he coming on tele
vision proclaiming his innocence againsi
"that woman, Ms. Lewinsky." Instead
he calmly sipped Diet Coke whih
pondering the definition of "is."
Starr seemed to have changed his
battle plan: No longer was he interest
ed in proving an affair had taken place
between the president and Lewinsky
He seemed to come alive and finallj
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suuw wny spending minion on ms
investigation was necessary. The lies
the blatant peijury was what he was
after.
Regardless of all else, Starr wanted
to make the public realize that the
president was getting away with something
his very constituents would go tc
jail for.
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"There must be son
with a solution, anc
highest bidder."
as, we panic. Are we so bored with
;he monotonous routine of life that
ve have to create social dilemmas to
teep everything interesting?
So it's going to be 2000. The only
iroblem I predict is what to call the iniial
decade of the next century. "The
90s" rolls off your tongue with such
;ase. I don't want to refer to the next
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>e accurate, and it would be downright
uinoying. I will also have to get used
o dating my checks and other docunents
in a different manner, but I have
o deal with that every new year.
By believing these wacky propheies,
and by entrusting our computers
vith so much, we have helped create
he problem. Our greatest enemy is ourelves.
Our paranoid preparations can
ery well lead to these end results.
If people believe banks can no longer
landle their money in the next centuV,
they may pull out their accounts. If
)o many follow suit, there will be a
anic, and a depression could occur.
This, added to the general frenzy
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peate social chaos. All this because our
jmputers won't know if it is 1900 or
000. The prophets didn't foresee this
appening.
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The more I read about Starr, the
clearer it became to me that President
Clinton's lies weren't to protect his
family anymore, but himself. I read
about a woman from Texas who was
" sent to jail for three years for lying about
t an affair under oath; she wasn't even
' offered the privilege of testifying in a
^ closed-circuit setting.
The pieces of Starr's crude jigsaw
puzzle began to fall together. He was
not out to hunt down the president be,
cause he was a Democrat. Kenneth
| Starr wanted to show America that a
, lie was a lie, regardless of whether it
was about sex or not.
. As strange as it may sound, I've
managed to become a believer in the
man I had once referred to on a daily
? basis as Satan.
For what it's worth, this is one Dei
mocrat who believes the truth is more
important than political colors.
f the world
le dork out there
1 he's waiting for the
We have created these problems,
and by trying to deal with them in such
a furious manner, we will do nothing
but create more problems. It seems like
our efforts are only to counter our
earlier efforts. It is a continuing cycle
that has plagued us in previous
years, and will continue to plague us
well after 2000.
So as the days between us and the
new millennium grow fewer and fewer,
we shouldn't lose sleep over our fate.
We are no strangers to chaos, and we
will surely see more in the future.
We must try to understand that
these potential dilemmas that lay ahead
may need only to be fed by our imaginations
before they can become reality.
We tend to think too much or draw
too manv Dremature conclusions before
acting.
Perhaps it is too late. Perhaps we
are so convinced that the world will end
next year that it will. I, for one, am not
too concerned with these aforementioned
prophecies and this Y2K problem.
The only thing troubling me in the
upcoming year is that I will have to wait
until April 11,2000 before I'm legally
able to celebrate the new century.
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