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...offered last week by Gary Aldrich, a former FBI agent who spent five years assigned to the White House. He describes Livingstone as someone who seemed to be executing orders from higher-ups--his bosses during the Administration's first year were Kennedy and White House counsel Bernard Nussbaum, both staunch Hillary Clinton allies--in a White House that repeatedly violated the rules surrounding background investigations of White House employees. In an account that appeared on the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal, Aldrich charged that staff members considered trustworthy by the Clintons could avoid background checks while permanent...
...nudes gathered around what must have been a picnic basket is as resolutely antisensuous as an assembly of naked women could possibly be. Some of them look like seals stranded on rocks. Others are lumpish giantesses. None were painted from actual models because, as his friend the painter Emile Bernard recalled, "he was the slave of an extreme sense of decorum, and...this slavery had two causes: the one, that he didn't trust himself with women; the other, that he had religious scruples and a genuine feeling that such things could not be done in a small provincial town...
...public figures were included. If anything, the list appeared dominated by academics. It added a few scholars who had not previously been seen as strong candidates, including Bernard Bailyn, chair of the History Department...
Call it blasphemy, call it heresy, but Billy Graham's financially successful "religious" kingdom was built on political savvy and guile, nothing more. BERNARD F. TAYLOR Trenton, New Jersey...
...Strong gains in jobs in February and March had sent stocks into free fall as investors feared a rise in interest rates from the Federal Reserve. April's modest job gains had a reassuring effect on Wall Street, calming fears that inflationary pressures are building. TIME's Bernard Baumohl says that if employment figures released today had been very strong, coupled with Thursday's report of GDP growth of 2.8 percent in the first quarter, the markets would have legitimate reason for concern that inflation is building and the Federal Reserve would raise interest rates. "Today's report is additional...