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...former U.S. Attorney who served as GOP Sen. Alfonse D'Amato's chief counsel in his Whitewater investigation. Ted Olson is now solicitor general, having spent part of the last 8 years helping out with the American Spectator's zealous prosecution of Bill Clinton -even as his wife, Barbara Olson, who used to work for Dan Burton, appeared on a fleet of TV talk shows defending Ken Starr's investigation of Clinton. Brett Kavanaugh, who used to work on Starr's independent counsel probe, is now ensconced in the White House counsel's office. And Tim Griffin, a former Burton...
...First Twins is fated to play on a while longer, now that Jenna Bush, 19, has decided to fight charges that she tried to buy liquor with someone else's ID at an Austin restaurant last month. Caught with a margarita at the same haunt, her sister Barbara pleaded no contest last week and will do eight hours of community service. While the President and his wife quietly grappled with how to manage their wayward children (it's Jenna's second citation), baby-boomer parents across the country had to wonder: If the First Daughters could get into this kind...
...when John Alroy, an evolutionary biologist at the University of California at Santa Barbara, put the question of what happened to the megafauna to a computer model, he got back a surprising answer. As he reported in the journal Science last week, the overkill hypothesis is actually quite plausible. That's because it was not necessary for human hunters to do in every last animal. All people had to do was kill slightly more animals than were born, a process that Alroy's model suggests could easily have taken place over a span of 1,000 years. Ecological upheavals owing...
...Prodigal Summer" by Barbara Kingsolver is described as wonderful and engrossing by its recommender. (If I may add to that, all of her books are great summer reads, especially "The Bean Trees" and "Pigs in Heaven...
...surprise when Grandma Barbara Bush said in a speech on Friday how interesting it was to have known the President in his unpresidential days, adding dryly - and pointedly - that George was now "getting back some of his own." The crowd roared in a we've-been-there sort of way. Barbara found a middle ground between where Bill Clinton would be - calling Jesse Jackson in to pray and harking back to his alcoholic father - and the total silence of her son George. Calling it a "private matter," White House press secretary Ari Fleischer scolded reporters. "Do you want the American...