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...will have to prove that Clinton's discussions with Lindsey on Monicagate damage control were vital to official government business -- a tall legal order. And the already sagging White House morale will not be helped by a round of news stories that are eerily reminiscent of Nixon's ultimately fruitless Supreme Court battle to keep the tapes private. On Ken Starr's side, fighting the privilege -- which may soon be extended to a slew of other White House confidants -- could bring the rest of his investigation to a screeching halt...
...thus ironic that a leading brand of condom bears the Egyptian King's name, but there is an even larger condom-related puzzle. If Betzig is correct, then why, in this age of contraceptives, do politicians keep philandering? Where's the "reproductive competition" in a fruitless tryst...
...multiple-bypass operation in November 1996 seemed to bring a miracle recovery. Then two months later, Yeltsin came down with another "cold"--this time, his aides said, the result of a post-sauna chill. This cold quickly metamorphosed into pneumonia and two more months of anxiety, political stagnation and fruitless discussion about the presidential succession...
...claim that the council's fight for Faculty diversity has been fruitless, is it really time to throw in the towel? Will we, as a student body, give up so easily? Stewart, Cohen, Newt Gingrich, Bill Clinton--all could learn a bit from the philosopher and Harvard professor Alfred North Whitehead. "No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives," Whitehead said in January, 1944, speaking about the overemphasis placed on the economic motive in humankind. If tomorrow's leaders, and tomorrow's voters, readily shun...
...that was on the McCaugheys' minds when they first went to see Hauser last spring. Their daughter Mikayla was 16 months old, and all they wanted was to give her a brother or sister. Bobbi had had trouble conceiving Mikayla; she had finally become pregnant after spending a fruitless year on one fertility drug and then switching to the more powerful Metrodin. Neither she nor Kenny wanted to wait a year this time, so she went on Metrodin right away--though, on Hauser's advice, at a lower dose. But while doctors can carefully control the number of embryos they...