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Reno's decision last Friday to dismiss a host of complaints about Clinton's fund raising, including the coffees, now looks premature. The fact that neither Reno nor her investigators viewed the tapes before dismissing the matter could make it even harder for the Attorney General to avoid seeking an independent counsel to investigate the entire fund-raising mess. The Justice Department has already been faulted for overlooking evidence during its probe of almost a year--evidence that was readily available to reporters...
...Released on the Chicago-based Thrilljockey label, Autoditacker wraps you up in swirls of repeated samples and drum loops. This kind of music-making may seem a bit hackneyed given the array of cookie-cutter techno groups out there, and after a first listen it seems easy enough to dismiss Mouse on Mars as just as another purveyor of boring rave music. But subsequent encounters with Autoditacker reveal a genuine musicality that contradicts this initial impression...
...council election commis- sion-fearing that the resemblance to the 39th president's moniker would cause students to dismiss the candidacy as a joke-registered Carter first as "James Carter," and then as "James 'Jimmy' Carter," when Carter protested...
...engraved invitation addressed to Grimace and the Fry Guys. Never would McDonald's, Inc. have been able to purchase the kind of publicity that you provided for them. In any case, there are several good reasons for keeping McDonald's out of Harvard Square. You may try to dismiss these arguments as the expressions of an elitist sentiment, but many of them draw from Jeffersonian democratic ideals, as well as a number of traditions that are more compelling than your consumerist apologies...
William Julius Wilson's important book, When Work Disappears, identifies the lack of jobs as the key to black poverty and social disarray. The Thernstroms dismiss Wilson's work as simply "plausible." Some blacks have made it, they note; let those on the bottom emulate these role models. But even those blacks who have achieved are bitter about the racism they faced on the road to success. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, reminded that his people had come a long way, responded, "But so have other people come a long way...People say we are better off today. Better than...