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...Jones lawsuit is a case of first impression, meaning that the courts have never before been asked to rule on the essential question: Does presidential immunity extend to conduct allegedly undertaken before a Chief Executive assumes office? Bennett will assert that the logic applied by the Supreme Court in its 1982 ruling in Nixon v. Fitzgerald should apply here as well. (After telling Congress that cost overruns on the C-5A transport plane could reach $2 billion, Ernest Fitzgerald, an Air Force management analyst, was fired. President Nixon took responsibility for his dismissal, and Fitzgerald sued Nixon for damages...
Under the current basic payment plan, a loan is repaid over 10 years at a fixed rate. Now students will have the option to extend the payment time under either a fixed or variable rate...
...fall semester exams back to early December and shortened reading period--had been a long time coming. It was debated extensively by the Undergraduate Council, and then by the Committee on Undergraduate Education, both of which endorsed it. It clearly reflected the desire of a majority of students to extend the winter vacation and salvage it from the stress to exam preparation...
...said only that "the decision was made that it would be prefer able to extend the appointment for two years, and then do a regular review at that time...
Retreat, some call it. Surrender, capitulation, appeasement. These are just a few of the damning words used by those who oppose Bill Clinton's decision to extend China's trading status as a most favored nation. The others aren't publishable -- but all of them are wrong. The words that better describe the President's action are realistic and courageous. The question, as Clinton said last Thursday, is not whether the U.S. should pressure Beijing to improve its abysmal human-rights record. The question is how best to do it while ensuring that America gets a piece of the action...