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...halt. The big question is whether either man can control his own partisans in the House, like Democratic whip David Bonior or Republican Dan Burton, chairman of the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee, which will look into just about everything labeled Bill and Hillary. If Democrats insist on a full-bore pursuit of Gingrich, Republicans will seek the blood of the Clintons later this year or next. Washington is not so different from ancient Rome. It may talk a lot about ethics, but revenge is the virtue it understands best...
...million settlement, the largest-ever toxic tort injury settlement in U.S. history. Brockovich-Ellis’ crusade was dramatized in the 2001 Hollywood blockbuster “Erin Brockovich,” starring actress Julia Roberts, who won an Oscar for the role.But many scientists insist that no link has been established between the contaminants in the water and the cancer cases in Hinkley, Calif. According to studies published by the Environmental Protection Agency and available on its website, “No data were located in the available literature that suggested that chromium-6 is carcinogenic by the oral...
College administrators, however, insist that their interest in a women’s center long predates Summers’ media mess. “I’ve been hearing about this since I became Dean [in 2003],” Gross says. “This has been cooking for a while...
...baked anything in my life, and I don’t think Teddy [Theodore B. Bressman ’06, Team Zebra co-Principal] has either,” the two prepared to fire up the ovens as midnight Monday loomed. Technically, striped success eluded Team Zebra, but they insist that fun was had by all. And that’s what matters—fun, apparently, and pies...
...wage” law only raises the pay of city employees and the employees of private firms who do business with the city. A pay raise for a whole city or a whole state is simply a “minimum wage increase.” Why some people insist on this distinction is beyond me. I’m just going to call any law that substantially raises a state or local minimum wage a “living wage” law.) Advocates of living wage campaigns have made two claims to get people to focus on their...