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...addition, the ruling could be seen as an indication of a societal and judicial movement away from affirmative action--especially when plotted against the background of other such cases, such as the recent lawsuit brought and won by a white student not admitted to a Boston high school...
...four-line, handwritten note from President Clinton to Arthur Coia, signed "Bill" and thanking Coia for the gift of a handcrafted golf club ("It's a work of art!"). The second was a draft 212-page complaint from the Justice Department, previewing a lawsuit to place the Laborers' International Union of North America under federal control and oust Coia as general president, on grounds that he had knowingly let mobsters run the 750,000-member union...
...they say, is such a well-known Cosa Nostra fortress--and so prominently featured in the Justice Department's original complaint--that union investigators had to act. Also, some of the ousted officials took with them large life-insurance policies with immediate cash value. Those officials also dropped a lawsuit against the international union that could have forced Coia to testify about an embarrassing matter. In 1994, according to the original Justice complaint, he tried to consolidate all of upstate New York's training funds--a traditional source of slush--in the Mob-controlled Buffalo local but was blocked...
When I heard that Bill Clinton might seek protection from Paula Jones' lawsuit under military law as an "active duty" Commander in Chief [Nation, June 3], I thought one of Jay Leno's joke writers had gone berserk. DON A. ELLIS Overland Park, Kansas
This angered Grisham, who took to the pages of the Oxford American, a magazine he publishes, to excoriate the filmmaker. "He's an artist and he can't be bothered with the effects of what he produces," Grisham wrote. But just let Stone lose a million-dollar product-liability lawsuit, "and the party will be over...