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...meantime, Lewis has recruited sometime-antagonist Marco B. Simons '97, chair of the Undergraduate Council's Student Affairs Committee, to help him ferret out the source of the leak...
...Clinton's longtime political ferret, Lindsey, 48, has always understood the centripetal nature of power--that to get to the core of it, you almost have to disappear. But last week he shed his cherished invisibility, when instead of managing the President's problems, he became one himself. It was revealed that federal prosecutors plan to name Lindsey an "unindicted co-conspirator" in an alleged plot to hide from the irs large cash withdrawals by Clinton's 1990 gubernatorial campaign, which Lindsey served as treasurer...
...little attention to the thousands of line items in appropriations bills, he has assigned a sharp-eyed 29-year-old staff member, Mark Buse, to pore over them and monitor the Senate floor for as long as 13 hours at a stretch. Buse has earned the nickname "the ferret" -- as well as the enmity of Senators annoyed by his zealous impertinence. But Peter Sepp, a spokesman for the National Taxpayers Union, says, "Mark's efforts have been absolutely critical. If he weren't in there doing this kind of research every day, some ridiculous spending projects would never have seen...
...outset of the novel, Bennett is hired by Leominster College, ostensibly to teach physics but also to try to ferret out the insights of the genius physicist Scalopino, who has published nothing and yet, according to rumor, keeps scores of brilliant results in files full of near undecipherable notes...
...dazzling, personal, unorthodox paradoxic your assumptions (paradoxes are not equivocations), the more interesting an essay it is likely to be. (If you have a chance to confer with the assistant in advance, of course--and we all like to be called "assistants," not "graders"--you may be able to ferret out one or two cosmic assumptions of his own seeing them in your blue book, he can only applaud your uncommon perception. For example, while most graders are politically unconcerned, not all are agnostic. This is an older generation, recall. Some may be tired of seeing St. Augustine flattened...