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Ethics in Government Act. The act, which included provision for special prosecutors, was created to prevent another Watergate cover-up by a politically tainted Justice Department. It led to long, sensationalized and fruitless investigations of alleged cocaine use by two of Carter's White House aides, Hamilton Jordan and Tim Kraft. Under the act, the Attorney General must ask a special court unit to name a prosecutor whenever there is "specific information" lodged against any of some 240 top officials, whether or not it meets the legal standard of "probable cause" to believe a crime has been committed. Attorney...
...they find here. They arrive to discover insufficient practice facilities and uniformly express frustration with a Music Department which they say discourages performance. Pianists, in particular, face a difficult situation: Few opportunities exist for organized music performance, and even finding a good practice piano can prove time-consuming and fruitless. These musicians--not all of whom are necessarily headed for professional careers--have two options. They either leave--as Hunt did--or they quietly re-adjust their habits, and perhaps even their ambitions, to conform to the conditions of an unashamedly academic environment...
...master's degree from the University of Toledo, as she had also claimed. Questioned by her editors, Cooke admitted that she had exaggerated her credentials (she had attended Vassar for one year and earned a B.A. from Toledo). Nearly eleven hours later, after more grilling and a fruitless search for Jimmy's house in southeast Washington, Cooke admitted that the boy did not exist and that she had invented most of the story. Cooke resigned and went into seclusion. The Post promptly returned the award and apologized in an editorial: "This newspaper . . . was itself the victim...
...Harvard's money is being used for those purposes. I am not advocating that policy because I think Harvard ought to use its economic muscle to force corporations into changing their policy. I don't advocate that course for two reasons. One is that I think it is a fruitless policy. Harvard doesn't have the leverage to have that kind of impact. Secondly, I think it ill behooves an institution that is founded on the premise of keeping outside organizations from putting pressure on it to then turn around to use its economic assets to try to put pressure...
Though the Social Democratic movement was being dismissed only weeks ago by both Labor regulars and Tories as a press creation and a fruitless exercise by a few elitists, no one is laughing now at what the party might achieve. Labor's leader, Michael Foot, pleaded with the defectors "until the twelfth hour" not to leave the party, but the appeal came too late. The Tories are equally fearful that some of their own restive dissidents may find their way to the Social Democrats. Conservative Party Chairman Lord Thorneycroft last week issued a letter asking Tories to stick with...