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...there?s more, according to AP: Lenzner?s firm got a $100,000 no-bid contract from the White House shortly after his first visit in 1994, and Lenzner has alleged connections to Clinton confidant Mickey Kantor. White House spokesman Jim Kennedy declined comment. All very cloak-and-dagger -- little more than circumstantial, but just the sort of thing Blumenthal would cry conspiracy over were he on the other side of the fence. As it is, Lenzner remains under Starr?s ever-broadening microscope. No doubt we?ll be hearing more in weeks to come...
...scratch Harvard's skeptical, scholarly exterior and things start to look a little more interesting. Rumors circulate: one account explains that early one morning, forty years ago, a cleaning lady vacuuming alone in Wadsworth House saw a grim character in a Tricorn hat and cloak silently come down the stairs and go out the door; another report describes the sounds of a phantom dinner party that filled the corridor by the southwest corner of University Hall, a displaced echo of the dining hall that occupied the building in the 19th century; and some remember hearing Bill Gannon, former sexton...
...large it is a cloak for anti-Semitism," he says. "The far right by and large has taken great pains to strip away explicit racism and couch arguments in pseudo-academic terms. They don't talk much about satanic Jewish bankers running the world but that is the subtext...
...good, the story is good, so what is the problem with Lewis & Clark? The problem is its overall tone and often soppy commentary; in other words, the problem is most of what Burns brings to the project beyond what geography and history have provided. Burns throws the same cloak of sentimentality and earnestness over every subject he takes on--it's not a cloak, actually, it's more like a Shetland sweater that softens and domesticates powerful events--and Lewis & Clark is no exception...
...dreams that one day soon the people of Western Samoa will see the benefit of preserving not only the rain forests surrounding their villages but also the vast cloud forests that still cloak the sides of the volcanoes that form the spine of Savai'i. Here he hopes the villagers will agree to "make the biggest national park in the whole world," before the chain saws get there too. He wants them to become as excited about the project as he is, rather than have the impetus come from outside. Behind this goal lies a philosophy that runs through...