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...African-American judicial nominee whose candidacy Ashcroft famously torpedoed in 1999. White, the first black member of the Missouri Supreme Court, was Bill Clinton's choice for a federal district court seat. Ashcroft single-handedly built the opposition that crushed White, charging that his record showed "a tremendous bent toward criminal activity." It was the first time the full Senate rejected a judicial nominee since Robert Bork...
...prohibits kegs but not bottles or cans of alcohol, therefore possibly compounding the problem of can- and bottle-strewn fields. Also, without easy access to beer, students bent on a buzz will be tempted to drink more of the hard liquor and punch available near the field...
...didn't play great, but we played well. We bent but we didn't break," Owens said. "I think our defensive core was out of sync. We wanted them to simplify their game and they responded to the challenge...
...months now, Topic A around the FBI water coolers has been gossip that FBI director Louis Freeh was actively job-hunting in Manhattan's high- dollar law firms. Freeh, a career public servant with six young sons, no savings and a puritanical bent, alternately denied and encouraged rumors that he was just waiting out First Bad Boy Bill Clinton before he pulled up stakes and moved north...
...than the victories did. His prospects dimmed considerably on Nov. 22, the day Miami-Dade shut down its recount. But Gore was more unsettled--"shocked," Eskew says--by the melee outside the counting room, and the ABC News report the following evening that the protesters had been G.O.P. operatives bent on intimidating the canvassers. Klain described it as "a pivotal moment, a crystallizing moment of understanding what was going...