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...York Times reported yesterday that Weld, a Republican, was making calls to Republican friends in Congress to persuade them to vote against impeachment...

Author: By Joyce K. Mcintyre, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Community Defends President | 12/10/1998 | See Source »

...President wants everyone to know--thecommittee, the Congress and the country--that heis genuinely sorry for the pain and the damagethat he has caused and for the wrongs that he hascommitted," Craig said...

Author: By Joyce K. Mcintyre, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Community Defends President | 12/10/1998 | See Source »

...support racist and anti-Semitic organizations and who deem the members of these organizations "real Americans" while considering some of us less than real Americans. Barr especially is to be condemned because he willingly aided the CCC in its efforts to achieve legitimization by boasting that a member of Congress is willing to speak before it and be associated with...

Author: By Alan M. Dershowitz, | Title: Barr's 'Real Americans' | 12/9/1998 | See Source »

...Congress established the National Medal of Science in 1959. A 12-member presidential committee chooses the recipients. Since its establishment, the award has been given to 362 notable American scientists and engineers...

Author: By Terry E-E Chang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Scientists Honored With National Medals | 12/8/1998 | See Source »

Rozelle's next big move was to weld the owners of the new, expanded league into a cartel. This too required an exemption from the antitrust laws, which Congress granted in 1966. One morning the three major television networks woke up and found not a collection of individual teams competing with one another to sell their broadcast rights, but a single entity with a growing sense of its value...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PETE ROZELLE: Football's High Commissioner | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

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