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...Starr's team believed, was criminal. Prosecutors closed their Whitewater grand jury inquiry in 1998, Schmidt and Weisskopf report, convinced that Hillary Clinton had lied to investigators, though they lacked sufficient evidence to indict her. Later, as the Lewinsky scandal progressed, the stonewalling included the Secret Service's "protective function privilege," a fanciful legal gambit designed by Justice Department lawyers to prevent agents from testifying. Starr had reason to believe that this was undertaken on Clinton's specific instruction, despite the President's pronouncements that he had recused himself from such decisions...
First, in the age of the Internet, censorship is increasingly a private rather than public function. Legislators, such as Senator John S. McCain (R-Ariz.), who advocate requiring public libraries and other entities receiving federal funds to install "filtering" software are--deliberately or not--working to create a privatized censorship structure in which companies like Mattel do the censoring...
...Sunday and held low-profile working meetings with Prime Minister Barak and other officials, disappointing Israeli hopes for a high-profile state visit. More alarming for Israel, Abdullah threw down a challenge in an interview with Israeli TV Saturday, urging that Jerusalem be declared an "open city" that could function at once as the capital of the Jewish state and of a future Palestinian state. As it enters final-status peace negotiations with the Palestinians, Israel is insisting that Jerusalem will remain indivisible and Israeli. The king has renounced his own stake in the city - his family has had custodial...
With the election of its 2000-2001 board last week, the Black Students' Association (BSA) marked its commitment toward balancing its social function, emphasized in the past year, with its traditionally more assertive political role...
...club favorites the Gravel Pit and the Sheila Divine did their time. The Gravel Pit started things up while people were still filtering in, but they wasted no time in energizing the club with soulful vocals and rabid guitar heroics. They seemed an odd choice to play an industry function, though - not much vanilla or mainstream about them at all. Every time the Pit drove into catchy melodies or guitar riffs, they'd let loose into some tuneless noodling or unorthodox chord progression. It was almost a textbook case of indie rock being too complex, too busy - some would...