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...testimony, it could mean trouble for the White House. On the whole, Ginsburg wasn't entirely bad for Bill Clinton. The lawyer's attacks on Starr did nothing to hasten the day when his client could enter an agreement to offer testimony that might put the President in a bind. By contrast, just minutes after they signed up to be Lewinsky's new team, Cacheris and Stein paid a courtesy call on Starr, with whom Stein had worked during the Senate's harassment investigation of Bob Packwood. In return, Starr's office said nice things about them. The prospect...
This invisibility stems from the behind-the-scenes way Rudenstine has chosen to lead a University full of powerful fiefdoms. He has worked hard to bind Harvard's deans to a system of government by consensus which has both empowered him as president and bound that power to the approval of others...
That left Christman in a bind. "The annulment meant there was no marriage," he says. Army lawyers told him to abandon his efforts to expel the couple. "Since, following the annulment, no marriage ever existed legally," he says, "we felt strongly we couldn't sustain the separation." Army officials say the two were punished, short of expulsion, although they decline to offer details or identify the couple. Through an Army spokesman, the pair declined to be interviewed...
...Americans to say, of course. We already have power, indeed, the pre-eminent power in the world. And we've had it for a half-century. No wonder our elites are so bored with it, so enamored of treaties and conventions and all manner of devices that bind the world into a community of exemplary self-restraint, so contemptuous of mere striving for power and so shocked when that atavistic urge explodes in India, taking their cozy little illusions with...
...fear into the Fed. It's unlikely that El Niño can cause enough bad weather -- as it did in March -- to slow the job juggernaut again. Between keeping interest rates beneficial to Asia and raising them to nix U.S. inflation, Greenspan's bind just became much tighter...