Word: counsels
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Elizabeth Barry, formerly of Harvard's Office of the General Counsel and now an associate vice president and deputy general counsel at Michigan, has worked closely with Bollinger during the recent affirmative action lawsuits. Barry says that Bollinger displays "just the right combination of insipiration, dedication and savvy management...
Last Friday, Bill Clinton confessed wrongdoing in his 1998 Paula Jones deposition, fulfilling his part of a deal cut with Independent Counsel Robert Ray and bringing an end to a probe that had dragged on through most of his presidency. But on Saturday, issuing a slew of pardons, Clinton took a major swipe at all the independent counsels who had dogged him and his cabinet. Former HUD secretary Henry Cisneros and his onetime mistress were pardoned. Several figures who were squeezed by longtime Whitewater independent counsel Kenneth Starr, Ray's predecessor - Steve Smith, Robert Palmer, Chris Wade and Susan McDougal...
...perhaps more irksome for Ray is that Clinton has now pardoned or commuted the sentence of each and every individual convicted by Independent Counsel Donald Smaltz, who in 1994 was appointed to lead the investigation in former agriculture secretary Mike Espy, and whose deputy was Ray until Ray took over from Kenneth Starr. Smaltz's investigation of Espy was, even more than any of the independent counsel probes, widely criticized for being overzealous. His 34-count indictment of Espy for allegedly accepting illegal gifts and gratuities ended in acquittal. And those he gathered in his net along the way - lobbyist...
...could George W. Bush look like a healer and still knock some of the spring out of Bill Clinton's step, the wind out of his victory tour and a zero off his book advance? Pardon him, as soon as possible. With special counsel Robert Ray--Ken Starr's tenacious successor--now weighing whether to indict Clinton for obstruction of justice, Bush might want to pre-empt Ray and pardon Clinton before any indictment. Bush could wrest the Bible out of William Rehnquist's hands, turn to an appropriate Psalm of forgiveness and make it the heart of his Inaugural...
...deal that everybody wanted is done. Bill Clinton on Friday admitted making wrongful testimony in the Paula Jones case and is barred from practicing law in Arkansas for five years after he, Independent Counsel Robert Ray and Arkansas judge Susan Webber Wright struck a three-way deal for the knotting of all of Clinton's loose legal ends...