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Drip, drip, drip. JANET RENO's plumbers are back on the job, mounting yet another investigation of leaks to reporters. It's a subject that seems to have a particular fascination for her, though such probes rarely yield anything conclusive. The impetus this time is a Feb. 27 Wall Street Journal item saying Department of Justice prosecutors had recommended indicting former Republican National Committee chairman HALEY BARBOUR in connection with his solicitation of funds from an overseas businessman. The spate of probes to track down loose lips in the halls of Justice--including one to find the source...
Camdessus: The Asian crisis is a formidable impetus for us to continue our efforts to achieve good governance, to make institutional changes, to fight against corruption. It's alleged that the IMF applies the same medicine in all countries. Look at the programs in Thailand, Korea and Indonesia. The medicine in each instance is very, very different. If you will take them, you will see how strongly centered they are on fighting chronic corruption, monopolies and bad procedures. If these programs end up making the countries stronger, it will be because they make a strong effort in correcting these governance...
...impetus for the new recordings and the series of films, collectively titled Yo-Yo Ma: Inspired by Bach, came in the early '90s, when Ma got to musing about the extramusical implications of Bach's work. With the exception of the collaboration with Egoyan on the fourth suite--a fractured but more or less conventional narrative with an enigmatic power similar to the Bach--each film is split in two, documenting the collaborative process as well as its result. The pairing with choreographer Morris (for the third suite) is particularly inspired. Others are more frustrating, with Ma either not quite...
...brought to Harvard by student group representatives on Unite! with the aim of providing students with the facilities and the impetus to think more deeply about themselves, their college experience, and Harvard's role as a world actor. So far, the teach-in (which ends tomorrow) has included events dedicated to a range of subjects joined by their effort to examine questions of social justice and political agency...
...drumbeat for impeachment hearings has already begun. "It will be very hard to resist the impetus" for hearings, says House Judiciary chair Henry Hyde. The process starts with a congressional investigation. It takes a majority vote of the House of Representatives to impeach, and if the vote carries, a trial is conducted by the Senate. A two-thirds vote is required to convict, which would cause the President to be removed from office. Andrew Johnson is the only President ever impeached, and the Senate failed to convict him. In the only other close call, Nixon resigned at the height...