Word: counsels
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...House Ethics Committee will appoint an independent counsel to investigate ethics charges against House Speaker Newt Gingrich. The counsel will take up allegations by Ben Jones, a former Democratic Congressman from Georgia, that the Speaker's "Renewing American Civilization" college course was really a fundraising tool for Gingrich's GOPAC political action committee. TIME's Viveca Novak says the appointment could open the door to a broader investigation of the Speaker: "The outside counsel will not take the assignment without the authority to investigate anything he comes across. If, for instance, the person appointed as counsel is an expert...
...CONFIDENCE PROVOKES GRIM smiles from those who have been tracking the field. Giving USA, a publication of the American Association of Fund-Raising Counsel, registered a 3.7% rise in all charitable giving in 1994 over 1993, but the figure includes contributions to cultural institutions and other nonpoverty-related causes. Giving for "human services," the category most closely associated with poverty work, dropped 6%. A poll by Independent Sector found that voluntarism, which also saw a boomlet in the late '80s, declined 5% in 1993 from 1991. In the same poll, 73% of respondents worried about having enough money...
...described himself as an "unofficial kibitzer" with the Forbes campaign, was unsuccessfully nominated to the Board for International Broadcasting in the same year as Forbes. At the confirmation hearings before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 1983, Senator Joseph Biden suggested that Ellis had promoted segregation while he was counsel to the North Carolina Advisory Commission on Education in the 1950s. Ellis wrote at the time that the goal of school integration was "racial intermarriage and disappearance of the Negro race by fusing it into the white." Ellis later withdrew his name from consideration...
...Senate Whitewater hearings, which have been digging for political pay dirt for months, may have found some. Armed with newly uncovered telephone records, Republican members grilled two close advisers of Hillary Rodham Clinton about conversations they had with the First Lady shortly after the suicide of Deputy White House Counsel Vincent Foster. The G.O.P. claims the phone records suggest the First Lady herself put a stop to a search of Foster's office in order to protect Whitewater records--an assertion the White House has long denied...
...think he is fair, an excellent listener, and I think he has the demonstrative capacity to reach out to people of different backgrounds and experiences," said Stern, who worked with Riley while Riley was in the state police and Stern was chief legal counsel for former Gov. Michael S. Dukakis...