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...Watergate is that even the hint of skulduggery during a presidential campaign snowballs into a political scandal - often before anything resembling the truth is known. In the two weeks since a videotape and more than 100 pages of George W. Bush's debate preparation material landed on the desk of one of Al Gore's closest advisers - who turned them over to the FBI - rumors, fanciful tales and flat-out fabrications about who was behind the caper have whizzed between the two campaigns and the press rooms of the world. The facts have been on holiday. Except...
Patricia A. O'Brien's room on the second floor of the Office of the Registrar is orderly and neat--her desk free of papers, everything in its place...
Everybody who attends a 9 a.m. class, or teaches one, is familiar with the tell-tale clatter as one of the participants loses the battle to stay awake and keep notepad and pencil from falling off the desk. Much the same situation pertains in 10 a.m. classes too. For the exhausted victim, catching up afterwards by reviewing material on the course website or borrowing someone else's notes means a double investment of time. Starting the lecture schedule later in the morning would not solve anything; it would just prolong the day at the other end, unless Harvard drastically reduced...
Someday, that is. On his desk at their home in New Jersey, Bill has a note from his son William, 41, attached to a newspaper clipping of an article about end-of-life issues and how parents and their children don't deal with them adequately. The note reads, "Dad, Mom, when are we going to talk about this...
...still there on my desk," admits Moyers, "18 months later...