Word: counsels
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Moderated by Board of Overseers President Renee M. Landers '77, who works in the general counsel's office of the Department of Health and Human Services, the panel will feature Sydney Jones, executive director of Human Rights Watch/Asia Watch; Harriet Rabb, general counsel of HHS; Robert Reichauer, a senior fellow of economic studies at the Brookings Institution; and Barry Zuckerman, head of pediatrics at Boston City Hospital...
...Queen's Counsel and former Hong Kong Bar Association Chair Jacqueline Leong said she feels this autonomy is necessary if peaceful reversion can occur...
...they probably will pass them," says TIME White House correspondent J.F.O. McAllister. "Majority Leader Trent Lott says he just wants to be thorough." The probe into Lake's investments focuses on several energy stocks he owned while serving in his current job as National Security Advisor. The White House counsel's office advised Lake two years ago to sell his holdings in four energy-related concerns, which were deemed a potential ethical conflict because his influence in setting U.S. Mideast policy could affect energy prices and thus the value of his stocks. There is some evidence to suggest that Lake...
...Gingrich got off with a reprimand, not the censure that would have required him to step down as Speaker. If the full House goes along with the recommendation, that alone will make him the first Speaker in history to be disciplined in any way. But the report by committee counsel James Cole, which says that for years the Speaker flouted House standards of conduct, is tougher than many Republicans expected. And the surprising fine--which is supposed to cover the cost of additional investigation made necessary by Gingrich's slippery replies to committee inquiries--is a lot of money...
...suspect Jim McDermott, ranking Democrat on the ethics committee. A committee source, interviewed by TIME, claims to have overheard McDermott talking to a Florida couple, who insisted on giving him a package in person. House Republican leaders say they have learned that McDermott discussed the conference call with special counsel James Cole before any news of the call appeared in public. They insisted that the call had not violated any deal and quickly went on the offensive, charging that intentionally intercepting and taping private phone conversations, or circulating tapes or transcripts of them, are illegal. And for a member...