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...whirlwind of politics. As one of the magazine's senior political writers, he covered the White House in 1996, has reported on elections around the country and co-wrote our 1998 Man of the Year cover story on Ken Starr. But five weeks ago, he stepped into a firestorm when he became acting Nation editor as the impeachment of the President moved into the Senate. "It certainly hasn't been difficult coming up with story ideas," he says. "But events move so quickly that the story on Friday is vastly different from what we envisioned the previous Wednesday." Though...
Berkowitz's appeal is likely to rekindle debates about the fairness of Harvard's tenure process. Last December, President Neil L. Rudenstine's tenure denial to another promising young professor, Jeffrey A. Masten, then Cowles Associate Professor in the Humanities, sparked a firestorm of complaints that the system often sends rising stars packing...
...state-of-the-art laboratory to concoct the ideal judge to lighten his troubles, Clinton could not have conjured a better foil than Susan Webber Wright. Only a female Republican, Bush-appointed, generally unfriendly jurist could provide such a politically and legally sweet ruling. A Democrat, foreseeing the firestorm, probably wouldn't have had the guts to do it. Though criticism rained down on conservative talk-show hosts from callers outraged that one of Clinton's former law students had been allowed to preside over the case, the fact is that Wright is no fan of Bill Clinton...
...looking closer, many on campus say that the issue was less a firestorm than an annoyance...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Proving that there may be no way to allow any form of human cloning without setting off a firestorm, anti-abortion groups blasted a recommendation by the Presidential commission on human cloning to allow researchers to clone human embryos for medical research but prevent them from bringing the embryos to term. "This means it is OK to clone as long as you kill," said John Cavanaugh-O'Keefe, director of the American Bioethics Advisory Commission. The final recommendations of the 18-member National Bioethics Advisory Commission appointed by President Clinton to study the implications of the cloning...