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...Leave him alone." In plain English those three words sum up the case Bill Clinton's attorney will soon argue in his effort to defer Paula Jones' sexual- harassment lawsuit until the President leaves office. The drift of lawyer Robert Bennett's thinking has been known for some time, but sources familiar with the latest version of his brief, and the impressive appendix of historical writings that supports it, have provided TIME with the details of Bennett's argument. The key points, which highlight the inextricable connection of political and legal considerations, are these...
...crowded Mexico City each child imposes steep costs on a family, while in the U.S. welfare payments and other social safety nets buffer those costs. These skewed incentives convey similar signals to poor young women in America's inner cities, who in many cases see no reason to defer having children...
...hard -- but wrong on the second. By the time "Old No. 3," as Blackmun called himself, announced his retirement last week, he had become the court's most reliable liberal voice. "This is a guy who came to the court thinking it was the role of the court to defer to government," says Yale law professor Harold Koh. But as Blackmun read the cases, he realized not all government was good. Only when a Democrat was in the White House did he feel it was safe to retire...
Albright, who was admitted to Harvard last spring but was asked to defer admission for a year, spent three months shearing sheep in Australia before joining the NOLS trip to Kenya...
Most students interviewed say that while they would probably seek acceptance into business school right out of college if possible, they would defer enrollment in order to work for two or three years...