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...sometimes it doesn't pay to get too close to the seat of power. The lawyers at Rose have spent much of the past few weeks trying to contend with the tributaries of Whitewater that run straight through their firm -- and the whirring noise of a shredder. Two college students employed as couriers in the Little Rock office say that in late January, after the special counsel began his Whitewater investigation, they shredded materials from the office of Foster, who had handled some of the Clintons' Whitewater dealings, and who committed suicide last July. Senior attorneys are said...
...unprecedented body of evidence linking Iranian officials to the murder of a political opponent abroad. "This case," says a French official familiar with the investigation, "marks the first time that we have so many proofs of the implication of the state in an operation of this importance." Defense lawyers contend that the evidence against their clients is flimsy, and Iranian officials vehemently deny any involvement in this or other foreign assassinations...
...closing, I contend that Steele's speech was void of any new or interesting social thought. He obviously failed to recognize the contradictions in his work and in himself. After reading his work and hearing his lecture, I would argue that perhaps Steele himself is an "affirmative action baby," to borrow a phrase from Steven Carter. I find it hard to believe that an English scholar who has been an open critic of affirmative action would have the audacity to present some opaque social theories to the Harvard community. I think that if steele is to continue advocating that African...
...gold medal in women's figure skating went to neither Nancy Kerrigan nor Tonya Harding but to Ukraine's Oksana Baiul. The outcome was a shock -- but not entirely a surprise. Any member of last Wednesday's TV sport audience knew that Harding was scarcely in physical shape to contend for a medal and that Kerrigan was stronger and more poised than she has ever been. But the enchantress was Baiul, 16, who presented herself elaborately costumed as the Black Swan in Tchaikovsky's ballet. Feathers...
...recovery? On the contrary, says Greenspan, they will prolong it. Small increases now will prevent inflation without hurting what increasingly looks to be a sturdy economy. Holding off would allow inflation to blossom eventually and force much bigger interest-rate increases that really would stop growth. But others contend that low rates are the biggest reason why a disappointingly slow recovery has finally quickened into a promising advance. Raising borrowing costs now, they fear, will choke off the budding boom, in part by making purchases of such things as houses and cars harder to finance. Republican Congressman Toby Roth...