Word: counsels
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Since September 1996, the Harvard University Art Museums have become involved in two separate lawsuits relating to work done by contractors on the museums' climate control systems, according to attorney Robert B. Donin of the Harvard Office of The General Counsel...
This is the rub, of course. Western civilization is not the tired-out conventionalism as Peninsula would have you believe. There are sources of great and invigorating wisdom in the old antheap, and we should take such counsel wherever we can get it. In our foraging, however, we must be careful, unlike our fellows over at Peninsula, not to mistake irreverence for unbelief...
...party to the unseemly fund-raising operation. But in making the case for Lake, the White House damaged itself in the larger battle to rise above the fund-raising scandals that are swamping it. Press secretary Mike McCurry conceded that at times the NSC's "good, sound counsel" was ignored, a reflection of, "among other things, the shortcomings that existed in our process for scheduling appointments here at the White House...
...list. It has become closely watched and uniformly accepted as investment gospel. Not only is it a public embarrassment to be singled out (Time Warner, this magazine's owner, was a target in 1992 and 1993), but people are making decisions based on the list. Kayla Gillan, general counsel at CalPERS, says Reebok was chosen last summer--before its recent stock surge. C'mon, there's no excuse for not having the flexibility to adjust this list to the market. Money managers do that every day, don't they...
...Starr announced today that his stewardship of the Whitewater investigation would not, after all, end in August. "It has become clear that for the sake of continued public confidence in this investigation, it would be inappropriate to set any arbitrary date upon which to terminate my role as independent counsel," Starr said, reading from a prepared statement. "I made a mistake," he told reporters afterward. "Setting an arbitrary date was unwise and incorrect. . .an unwise judgment on my part." Starr's announcement Monday that he would be stepping down Aug. 1 to become dean of two graduate schools at Pepperdine...