Word: feb
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Drip, drip, drip. JANET RENO's plumbers are back on the job, mounting yet another investigation of leaks to reporters. It's a subject that seems to have a particular fascination for her, though such probes rarely yield anything conclusive. The impetus this time is a Feb. 27 Wall Street Journal item saying Department of Justice prosecutors had recommended indicting former Republican National Committee chairman HALEY BARBOUR in connection with his solicitation of funds from an overseas businessman. The spate of probes to track down loose lips in the halls of Justice--including one to find the source...
...council passed a bill on Feb. 22 calling for the addition of Lewis's signature and the seal to women's diplomas. But council members voted to retain the Radcliffe president's signature on women's diplomas, saying women are enrolled in both the College and Radcliffe, while men are simply students of the College...
...those spanking new additions to the dictionary, teetering on the borderline of officially recognized English. The first appearance of an ombudsperson on an American newspaper was in 1967 on the Louisville Courier-Journal. The Crimson followed three decades later, appointing Rajath Shourie '95 the first reader representative on Feb. 2, 1994. An executive editor of The Crimson, Shourie was an established "insider," and his official job description "charged [him] with investigating reader concerns" and by implicit extension, providing justifications or excuses for Crimson policy. He, and his successor the following year, rather more represented The Crimson to its readers than...
...Feb. 28 was definitely a bad day for JOHN ARBOGAST, a State Department lawyer who specializes in U.N. affairs. Running late, he stuffed a bunch of papers into one of his three bags and hurried to his car. Then he drove off, leaving the bags on the car roof, with predictable results. RONALD T. NELSON, a passing motorist, found Arbogast's briefcase, which held personal items. But Nelson tells TIME that when he returned it, Arbogast said that papers in the other two bags were "sensitive" and "important" and that some pertained to the crisis in Iraq. According to investigators...
Last week's terse, 70-page report of the Marine inquiry into the Feb. 3 Italian ski-lift tragedy blamed the jet fighter's crew for the deaths of 20 people. But a closer read yields an interesting discrepancy. On the one hand, the flight of the EA-6B PROWLER was described as a hair-raising ride, in which the plane flew too low and too fast until the collision. On the other was the description of crew members, whom colleagues and commanders praised for their flying skills and professionalism. And all the 35 EA-6B flyers interviewed said they...