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...Zach is certainly up for this," Busch said. "A few years ago, the idea of standing in the doorstep and taking candy seemed odd to him. He always wanted to go in the house...
After 70,000 pages, it's hard to imagine that the office of the independent counsel has anything tantalizing left to deliver. But two weeks after his team dumped 18 boxes of evidence on the doorstep of Congress, Kenneth Starr quietly sent something else--a 44-word letter that has impeachment handicappers all over Capitol Hill buzzing. It is a plea to handle in confidence the investigative materials related to the President's alleged groping in the Oval Office of a volunteer and former Virginia campaign worker, Kathleen Willey. The letter was the first official indication from the independent counsel...
...evidence without the exculpatory alternatives that prosecutors generally offer would be enough. What's really unsettling is the larger dynamic. At a time when the notion of a protected personal realm is beginning to seem quaint and sepia toned, even people who don't expect government investigators on their doorstep sense that Starr has breached more than just the President's tattered defenses. By its very example, his investigation furthers a truly unwholesome idea: that relations between consenting adults--even juvenile, unappetizing and wrongful ones--can be criminalized. All you have to do is corner the people involved, question them...
...parcel, called the two numbers on its address, found they were pay phones and immediately called the cops. Had she opened it, she would have found $20,000 to $40,000 worth of drugs. She was informed of this by the DEA officials who showed up on her doorstep moments after her call to police. The agents were actually going to arrest her, but were stymied because she had already reported the package. Hearst believes the incident has something to do with the presidential pardon she's seeking...
Nota: We are one--there are many things to be done. We are all emerging from Harvard College on the doorstep of the new millennium. We are very tired but also very educated. Life is long. We are armed with expository writing skills, foreign language skills, quantitative reasoning skills and an unassailable body of core knowledge. We have mostly shared a common diet, common living quarters and a common peer group. This makes Harvard neither fascist nor cooperative--it is as little one as the other...