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Gilbert referred other questions to University Attorney Anne Taylor. Taylor said yesterday afternoon she "could not confirm or deny" any investigation or allegation of research fraud...
That was good enough for Bill Clinton. Looking slightly wan, his voice a bit hoarse, a few minutes late and virtually unrehearsed, Clinton addressed the country from the Oval Office on Saturday evening. He described the plot against Bush and the efforts to confirm it. Then he announced that he had sent cruise missiles into Baghdad three hours before. He at one point felt it necessary to give a legalistic nod to the action, and so invoked Article 51 of the United Nations Charter, which deals with self-defense. But for his real message he reached back to an older...
...only witness, the meeting turned out to be more emotional, painful and time- consuming than the staff had anticipated. Guinier urged Clinton to go ahead with her Senate hearings; she believed that Senators would judge her as a whole person, not just by her writings, and would confirm her. But Clinton told her that the hearings would be based largely on the writings, that he would need to support them and could not. He warned her that the weeks leading up to the Senate hearing would be "death by a thousand cuts." Later he added, "That would not be good...
...recent activities of the Undergraduate Council may confirm this. In recent years, ideologues like Randal S. Jeffrey '91 have lost races for chair, and former chair David A. Aronberg '93 says, "There's a greater sentiment that we should be handling student services." This year, the council offered no comment on Mansfield's remarks or on the selection of Gen. Colin Powell as commencement speaker...
...virtual reality of the lending business, however, establishing an identity is a difficult maneuver. Brandishing the secret code-words--they served broccoli cheese pasta in the dining hall tonight--I tried to regain entry into the land of the Harvard living. But only workers at Hilles (Shepard Street) could confirm my existence--she still has books out, they vouched...