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...could have been Kevin Costner. It might have been George Will. Some say it should have been Colin Powell or even Madonna. But no. This year's Class Day speaker is Colorado Senator Tim Wirth. Many seniors expressed disappointment that Wirth-who speaks frequently at the Kennedy School--will be joining that other all-too-common speaker Derek Bok in what promises to be one of Harvard's less memorable Commencement weeks...
...press, the ban follows a seven-day investigation by Gray into Sununu's past excursions on military planes. A number of the more than 70 such trips that Sununu has taken since April 1989 appear to have been devoted mainly to personal or political pursuits -- including ski weekends in Colorado and his home state of New Hampshire. The cost to U.S. taxpayers is more than $500,000, only a fraction of which was reimbursed by Sununu, though some trips were bankrolled by ( private corporate interests in apparent violation of federal ethics laws. On the day the restriction went into effect...
...holy writ. So everyone expected quick action when George Bush, embarrassed by news stories on the freeloading travels of chief of staff John Sununu, directed him to "get it all out" and make "full disclosure" of his expensive trips aboard Air Force executive jets to ski resorts in Colorado and to his home in New Hampshire...
...Washington Post began investigating Sununu months ago, prompted in part by signs that his family (which includes eight children, two still residing at home) was living at the edge of its means yet managed to take regular skiing trips to Colorado and New Hampshire. Reporters at the Post, whose lead was followed by U.S. News & World Report, insist they got their scoop by observing that Sununu was an unusually frequent traveler and by demanding his records from the Pentagon. But once Sununu's detractors got wind of the investigation, says a Post staffer, "they called to cheer...
Officials at the Las Vegas Valley Water District insist that they had no alternative in 1989, when they filed 146 applications for water rights with the state engineer. Nevada's share of federally allotted water from the Colorado River cannot sustain growth in the booming oasis, which attracts 5,000 newcomers a month. Thirsty California, they argue, was positioned to jump in and stake a claim to the unused water. "It was our only Nevada source," says Pat Mulroy, general manager of the water district...