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...true in grade school, and it's true when you're in the White House: don't hang with the wrong crowd. That's the mistake HILLARY CLINTON made last week when she decided to hold a private meeting with gossip columnist CINDY ADAMS at New York's 132-year-old University Club, where she'd just spoken at a $1,000-a-plate fund raiser. It seems Adams managed to get herself and the First Lady booted from the stuffy club by gabbing on a cellular phone, rustling her bags and getting Hillary to spray Adams' incredibly unpleasant perfume...
...system the President had pledged "to mend, not end") had expressed hope that the consideration of the Taxman case would not include a decision on the "extraordinarily broad issue" of affirmative action. Likewise, pundits who usually enthusiastically support affirmative action shied away from this case. New York Times Columnist Bob Herbert labeled Piscataway v. Taxman "the wrong case." Herbert argued that the case was unrepresentative of affirmative action, contending that Williams was better qualified, independent of race: Williams has a master's degree in business education, whereas Taxman boasts no advanced degree. Yet, while it may be true that Piscataway...
...Asian flu seems to have a few sneezes left. "For a while, the fall sell-offs looked to have done their job," says TIME's Wall Street columnist Daniel Kadlec. "They let the air out of the stocks that needed it. Since then, everything is back up where it was, yet the Asia problems are still there...
...college-football season brings classic rivalries and of course bonfires, pep rallies and death threats against the President's daughter. Berkeley, long thought of as a peacenik kind of place, got medieval last week as the Big Game, the yearly clash with Stanford, turned ugly. Daily Californian columnist Guy Branum printed the name of CHELSEA CLINTON'S dorm and told his fellow Berkeley students to "show your spirit on Chelsea's bloodied carcass." Go, team! The Secret Service, however, didn't find those words so inspiring and instead bum-rushed Branum's dorm while they were in town...
Daniel Kadlec is TIME's Wall Street columnist. Reach him at kadlec@time.com