Word: counsels
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...right to a free, unsegregated public education, which made the state a more promising venue. "We were looking for new ways to breathe life back into the fight for equal educational opportunity, because in the federal courts the issue is dead," says attorney John C. Brittain, the lead counsel for the plaintiffs. The court's decision "shows that the fight for racial justice can still prevail...
Officials at Harvard's Office of the General Counsel refused to comment, saying that they had not heard of the complaint until they were notified by The Crimson yesterday...
With this decision Lamm is rearranging his life on short notice and going against the counsel of his political advisers and his wife, an active Democrat who has backed Bill Clinton. Says Lamm: "I'm rolling some pretty high dice on the premise that Perot is sincere." Perot meanwhile was content to let Lamm have the stage to himself--at least for the moment. Perot spent last week on vacation with his family in Bermuda, where gambling is illegal and U.S. politics seems distant...
Current and former White House supervisors appeared to have little idea of what people under them had been doing. Former White House Counsel Bernard Nussbaum insisted he did not know that underlings had used preprinted forms with his name on them to ask for the FBI files. Livingstone denied knowing how many files a former deputy, Anthony Marceca, was receiving in a supposed attempt to update the security clearances of career White House employees who had survived the change in administrations...
...misused," says Carney. "There may not be a sinister motive, but gross incompetence is not something to dismiss." Carney reports that Senator Arlen Specter may look into the option of granting Marceca immunity for additional testimony. But Carney notes the real fireworks, if any, won't surface until independent counsel Kenneth Starr completes his investigation, meaning that Filegate could haunt Clinton throughout the campaign season. -->