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Konstantinos G. Tsakonas '93 founded the magazine Points of Reference and was director of the Business Club last year. But students said that after he graduated, he tried to control the organizations, appoint his successors and smear his rivals...
...Merwe says there have simply been fewopportunities to appoint women to tenuredprofessorships...
...impressive in that it follows upon a month of stories criticizing his personal life as Arkansas Governor. Clinton's popularity looks better still after his dismal 37% approval rating of June, around the time his public image was being defined by his failed job-stimulus package, two failures to appoint an Attorney General, the fight over gays in the military, an ill-advised shakeup at the White House travel office and a haircut by Christophe. Clinton's popular rebound suggests that even if there were times last year when he made Americans wince, a majority of them remain ready...
...recent Whitewater affair is even more troubling. Attorney General Janet Reno waited until yesterday to appoint Robert Fiske Jr., a former U.S. Attorney, as special prosecutor for the case. Some of the documents he must review are subject to statutes of limitations under Arkansas state law. By waiting this long, Reno may have helped to obscure a great deal of the truth about Clinton's Arkansas land dealings...
...President wanted to amplify whispers of "cover-up" into roars, he could hardly have devised a better strategy. And the Administration promptly compounded the damage. Besieged by demands that she appoint a special counsel to look into the case, Attorney General Janet Reno steadfastly refused to do so at this time. That "might be a possibility," she said, if Congress passes a new law authorizing her to ask a court to choose a special counsel (the old law expired in 1992). But if she were to name one on her own now, said Reno, no one would believe the counsel...