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...Senate Democratic Leader Robert Byrd and four other Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee asked Attorney General Edwin Meese to appoint an independent counsel to investigate Deaver's discussions with former colleagues on matters including South Korean trade, tax breaks for Puerto Rico and continued support for Rockwell International's B-l bomber. Within 90 days, Meese must either ask a panel of three Washington judges to name the counsel or explain why he has not done so. Such an explanation could be ticklish, given the close association between Meese and Deaver. During Ronald Reagan's first term, they constituted...
...recommend a penalty for any past wrongdoing and instead was restricted to proposals geared to prevent and restrain future action. Prosecutors scrambled to adjust their case. The solution, based on recommendations by longtime Justice lawyers, was to ask the court to demand an initial $10 billion payment, then appoint a monitor to review the behavior of the industry and recommend a suitable penalty every year until the cigarette makers stop their misdeeds. Ted Wells, a lawyer for Philip Morris USA, calls the plan a "last-minute, desperate attempt" to save the case. But Justice lawyers say that far from staging...
...addition, the task force reports called for the creation of an “endowment or some other durable funding mechanism” to support “targeted hiring.” The eventual goal is to appoint 40 additional faculty members over the next five years...
...College will appoint an associate dean for bowel movements after a Harvard School of Public Health study links problems with regularity to spending long winters in large brick buildings. Something about the iron content in the bricks. Dean of the College Jacob Hale Russell ’05 will claim that the new appointment addresses a pressing absence of deanlets and will nicely complement the work of the assistant dean for animal control and the associate dean for undergraduate lighting...
...Just because you disagree with someone doesn’t mean you have a bad relationship with him,” says Gates, who did say he disagrees with Summers’ decision to deny Morgan tenure. “In the end, the president has sole power to appoint professors at Harvard...