Word: levins
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...bottom of the Enron mess, hearings on Capital Hill began today. Joe Lieberman, positioning himself for 2004 from the big chair at the Governmental Affairs Committee, is running the Democratic show in the Senate. He'll be trying to stay centrist with fellow Democrat Carl Levin on his left and Fred Thompson on his right - and $11,500 from Arthur Andersen and $2,000 from Enron since 1989 in his pocket. In the House, the Republicans are eager to show they can be tough on Big Business too - James Greenwood, chairman of the Energy and Commerce oversight committee (a wholly...
...calendar slips forward (and the legislative agenda settles into midterm election year vigorous-debate mode) Lieberman's committee will likely be where the stars come out. Governmental Affairs is the headliner, the Watergate committee, and the trio of Lieberman, Levin and Thompson - who has already made a declaration of sorts by urging the White House to "get the information out" about Enron contacts - should make for ripe daytime-cable viewing all spring. But while Lieberman must be pleased to know Ken Lay's schedule is now officially cleared, he doesn't have any big guests booked yet, and will kick...
...which means the hearings that kicked off Thursday - and the several others that will get under way in coming weeks - could take a while to heat up. Lieberman will let Levin, in charge of Governmental Affairs' investigations subcommittee, do the hard digging and knife-waving (he's already sent out 51 subpoenas to Enron and Andersen officials), but with every potential witness thoroughly "lawyered up" by now, there'll be plenty of Duncan-style immunity deals to be made, and all the legalistic haggling that comes with them, to be done first...
...that could take the wartime sheen off George W. Bush in time for not only this November but maybe even two Novembers from now. For that cause, a parade of shredders, auditors and penniless employees will do nicely - but Republicans will be berating wrongdoers too. And if Lieberman and Levin and tax man Max Baucus follow that trail much farther - to why this happened, and who created the conditions that allowed it to happen - the midterms could be awfully hard on voters' faith in both parties...
Last month, Yale President Richard C. Levin suggested that the nation’s top colleges should scrap early decision admissions programs. His comments have sparked a national debate on an issue important to all college-bound students. Levin was correct in asserting that the binding system of early decision disadvantages students for the convenience of college admissions committees. However, many of Levin’s criticisms do not apply to the non-binding system of early action used by Harvard and other colleges, and this process should be retained...