Word: counsels
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WASHINGTON: So far unable to sink the Clintons in Whitewater, independent counsel Kenneth Starr now appears to be seeking evidence that the first couple tried to obstruct his investigation ? a legal strategy that's more palatable than prosecuting the President for a decade-old land deal, says Jef McAllister, TIME's White House correspondent. "Accusations of abuse of presidential power and conspiracy bring the Whitewater investigation right into the White House in a way the original allegations never could," says McAllister...
Some of the most prominent speakers on the seven panels are: Massachusetts Supreme Court Associate Justice and former Harvard Vice President and General Counsel Margaret H. Marshall; Bryn Mawr College President Nancy Vickers; Professor of Biology Colleen M. Cavanaugh; Kenan Professor of English Marjorie Garber; and Professor of Government and of Sociology Theda Skocpol...
...environmental sidebars in 1993, the firm saw a big market in Mexico for its toxic waste-eating machine. It also saw a big marketing opportunity in the Vice President's visit to Mexico in December of that year. Two days before the trip, Knight wrote Gore's counsel Jack Quinn suggesting that Gore put in a good word for the company with President Carlos Salinas regarding a cleanup job that was the "type of project where U.S. technology can promote NAFTA goals," according to a copy of the letter obtained by TIME. Quinn, now a lawyer and a lobbyist, says...
...Angel. In 1993 CBS went hunting for something fluffy to cash in on the New Age angel craze. What it got instead from executive producer Martha Williamson was some heavy religious programming. Each week three angels (Della Reese, Roma Downey and John Dye) come to earth to counsel souls in crisis. Basically, they tell them to shut up and trust God, and then the angel of death takes someone away. It is great melodrama--Job replayed weekly--but pretty tough stuff. Nervous CBS execs ordered six episodes--and prepared a replacement. Williamson wasn't surprised by the show's success...
Though Attorney General JANET RENO still resists naming an independent counsel in the campaign-finance investigation, sources say she is increasingly dissatisfied with the slow pace of her own task force. Reno and Deputy Attorney General ERIC HOLDER are discussing an internal shake-up in order to accelerate the probe...