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...Department of Health, Education, and Welfare issued an elaboration of Title IX, in which the bill was interpreted to apply to two main areas of athletics--opportunity and finances...
William Ferris, chair of the NEH, announced the honor. "Bernard Bailyn is one of America's most eminent historians," Ferris said. "His main work, on the ideas and beliefs that have shaped the American nation from the beginning, is an excellent context for taking stock of our nation's heritage as we stand at the cusp of the new millennium. I am delighted to name him this year's Jefferson Lecturer in the Humanities...
WASHINGTON: While the White House stays muted, Monica Lewinsky's attorney is displaying the one thing we haven't yet seen from the main players in "Interngate:" Emotion. "I may be the only person in the country, apart from her parents, who actually cares about Monica," William Ginsburg told CNN. It may be nothing more than a legal tactic ? make the public sympathetic to his client. But amid the determined silence from other leading players in the scandal ? Clinton, Tripp and Lewinsky herself ? Ginsburg's indignant quotes seem likely to be devoured by a hungry public...
...What is emerging is just how much the entire investigation is relying on the word of Lewinsky's confidant, Linda Tripp. The now-famous Newsweek story, which was all set to scoop the world on Saturday, acknowledges Tripp as its main ? possibly only ? source. It is Tripp who has controlled access to the only 90 minutes of tape the media has heard, in which Lewinsky refers to an affair with "the big he" and "creep," and also says, alarmingly, "I have lied my entire life...
...main mission is to foster an interest in politics and Simpson said that he wants students to see it from every angle...