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...GAINESVILLE, GA., Hall County sheriff Bob Vass warned Ku Klux Klan leaders they would be jailed if they tried, by holding a march on Halloween, to evade a state law that forbids wearing masks or hoods to conceal a person's identity. "If they've got on a Klan robe and a Klan hat and any type of mask, including a Mickey Mouse mask, they will be arrested," said Vass. And then have to deal with Michael Eisner, he might have added...
...lively descriptions of her father's 6'2" frame folding itself into a Volkswagon Beetle for a quick road-side nap with tales of sleek Pullman trains and Ford Ranch Wagons. Lindbergh writes that her father "may have chosen it [the Ford] more in an attempt to camouflage and conceal his family from the world, a vehicle that mixed family travel with protection, part covered wagon and part battleship." In many ways Lindbergh's new memoir is an attempt to understand the peculiar relationship between covered wagon and battleship, family unity and "protective privacy," that has characterized so much...
...Clinton spent last winter helping Lewinsky find a job, return gifts he had given her and prepare for her testimony in the Jones case. Clinton's lawyers maintain that in each case these were innocent activities. But Starr's report argues that with each effort, Clinton was working to conceal the affair from lawyers in the Jones case and thereby derail their lawsuit, and then derail Starr's own investigation when it got under way in January...
Many types of excuses have gone through distinct stages of popularity in recent memory. In the arena of malfeasance, for a while, childhood abuse was the excuse du jour. Then O.J. Simpson helped reinvigorate racial disadvantage as a form of pardon. Now, as the president struggles to conceal his criminal culpability behind the right to privacy, a new excuse for the common man's ineptitude has been ensconced...
...Harvard's various political parties. Join the Harvard Democrats and learn to conceal evidence, exploit legal technicalities and enjoy a fine cigar. Watch out for rug burns. Those leaning to the right can take their place with the Republican Club. If you enjoyed Fred Thompson's performance as Bill Bilecki in the classic motion picture "Feds," help make sure that this fine performer and patriotic American gets his due. Help elect him president...