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Meanwhile, in Arkansas one of the main witnesses to the Whitewater transactions, Jim McDougal, is cooperating with Starr, and his ex-wife Susan remains under intense pressure to do so. While Jim's credibility will be assailed, whatever he has told prosecutors thus far has been deemed sufficiently important for Jim to have been moved into a "safe house," as he puts it, and he has cut off contact with the press and much of the outside world while he is being groomed for future testimony. This is much the same treatment previously accorded David Hale, the Arkansas lender...
...suppose the main thing that we've learned from this experience is that the feelings we had about him--his talent, intellect, gift for friends, compassion--were shared by many other people," said his father, Michael, who is the dean of music at Rice University in Houston...
...Riverside campus, protestors occupied the school's main administrative building early Monday morning. Police later arrested 20 people in the building, although 80 to 100 students were involved in the protest both inside and outside, according to the Associated Press...
...main thing I would want," Wilson says, "is for the University to recognize that we are here, that we are always going to be here, and that Harvard is built on a land that we come from. Just that recognition would change a lot of things...
...main disadvantage of public proceedings--the sullying of reputations of students embroiled in sensitive cases--could be resolved by moving cases within certain narrow and carefully-defined general areas (e.g., sexual assault) into private session. In general, though, students should be treated as adults and held accountable for their actions; paternalism with respect to disciplinary matters is not an effective teaching method in a college community...