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Professor Alan Dershowitz's Dec. 9 op-ed ("Barr's Real Americans") contains serious factual inaccuracies and damaging accusations about the Council of Conservative Citizens (CofCC) as well as about Rep. Bob Barr (R-Ga.). While Rep. Barr may speak for himself, it is important that Mr. Dershowitz's irresponsible statements about the CofCC be corrected...
...told colleagues, was to encourage Clinton to tell the truth, not catch him in a lie. When the DNA results came back, on July 31, Starr had deputy independent counsel Bob Bittman contact Kendall to request a presidential blood sample. Kendall asked if Starr's office had "a precise factual basis" for the demand--something against which to match Clinton's blood. A "substantial" one, Bittman replied. Seventeen days later, Clinton appeared before the grand jury and admitted an "inappropriate" relationship with Lewinsky. Alerting Clinton to the test results, Starr told TIME, just seemed like the "right thing...
...creation of special "hate crime" legislation seems only to be a rather roundabout way of promoting tolerance. As for social awareness, I suspect that the Boston Police are well aware of murders taking place within the city. Your article did not give any factual basis to the claims that "hate crimes against transgendered people have been ignored by the press". Given that this claim is apparently the sole reason for the student's activities, it would seem prudent to have substantiated...
...report said that the cost of litigating a real estate tax case with either MIT or Harvard might outweigh the benefits of any additional tax revenues should the case be successful. It concluded that the next step in the case would be "a rather massive factual investigation...
Whatever the factual and moral parallels between the two cases, the two men's fates could be quite different. If so, says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson, a crucial distinction will account for the difference: "The general is subject to the Uniform Code of Military Justice and the Commander in Chief is not." In our constitutional system, says Thompson, "we have a different way to deal with the President, as we probably should." TIME Washington columnist Margaret Carlson agrees. "There is only one President but thousands of soldiers," she says. One is not as easily dispensable as the other. "Moreover...