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...conflict is hardest on those caught in the cross fire. White House personnel chief Marsha Scott let her frustration boil over Tuesday -- after being subpoenaed for the seventh time in the Whitewater affair. "I don't even know where the Whitewater area is," she told reporters. "This whole process harasses people." Us, most...
...should cease organizing our own process so as to foster them. For once they start--once secrecy lets fears fester so that accusation resonates, opposed only by pompous privilege--they fester into a boil unless they're lanced with Evidence. Evidence depends on Openness. Let them see where your heart is. Let us show them where it is, with pride in our judgements and in our ability to articulate them. This is the strategy for which the United States Supreme Court spoke when asked in 1994 to consider the issue of privilege and secrecy in university tenure processes, a strategy...
...making his daily rounds, which are mostly devoted to tire slashings, acts of birdbath vandalism and hunting accidents. As an example of what Harrison calls "that final anomaly, a liberal officer of the law," Clement would just as soon not crack most cases, aware that the bulk of them boil down to ignorance, not malevolence. But when he trips over a human skeleton rotting on an island in the river, he's drawn into action...
...local law. It's a cluster of federal statutes, lumped under the rubric "obstruction of justice," that could spell trouble. As a former law professor, Clinton would have no problem parsing their legalistic references to "knowingly" doing this and "corruptly" doing that. But in truth they all boil down to a principle so basic in post-Watergate Washington it might as well be printed on the license plates: It's not the crime, it's the cover...
Seymour Hersh is an investigative journalist only as long as his inquiries fit the prior conclusions he has reached. His recipe for writing: boil down some quotes from murky sources, add a few references to obscure documents, smother with one's own exalted theories and half bake. PHIL LEVY Danvers, Mass...