Word: counsels
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...letter to Lessig filed with the court yesterday, Richard J. Urowsky, counsel to Microsoft, wrote, "It is difficult to see how you can in good conscience preside over further proceedings in this matter." Lessig may find that hard to argue...
...hearts of its subjects. The Royals, whose hereditary rule was supposed to spare them the vulgar pursuits of politicians, has asked British political polling firm MORI to create focus groups designed to make Buckingham Palace?s work reflect the "interests and concerns" of its subjects. Their Highnesses seeking the counsel of soccer mums? Next thing they?ll want to give Britain a constitution...
Tibet itself (with an army of just 8,500) was in an equally vulnerable state of remoteness when Chinese forces, newly united by Mao Zedong, attacked its eastern frontiers in 1950. Hurriedly, on the advice of the State Oracle (who delivered counsel while in a trance), the 15-year-old boy was invested with full political authority, and while still in his teens, he traveled to Beijing in 1954, against the wishes of his protective people, to negotiate face to face with...
...chaos spilled into the open as Reno prepared her decision on the White House phone calls. Arguing on one side was Radek, who advised against an outside counsel. On the other was LaBella, who said Radek's legal reasoning amounted to "pablum." Last Tuesday, before her announcement, Reno tried some shuttle diplomacy. She took a hard-to-miss walk across Pennsylvania Avenue to FBI headquarters, both to consult Freeh and to be seen consulting him. And Reno was careful to say a few hours later that the investigation proceeds. Just where it will lead has a lot to do with...
...long as Reno resists appointing an independent counsel, she may be doomed to second-guess her own decisions. Just last week her aides said they were reopening another aspect of the case Reno has already closed. Justice investigators want to probe whether "issue ads" prepared by the d.n.c. and the White House in 1995 were Clinton campaign ads in disguise. If so, such ads would violate campaign giving and spending rules. Reno rejected that idea in the past, but release of White House videotapes of fund-raising events--including footage of Clinton boasting about a legal end run--have prompted...