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...Marsha Scott, the chief of staff in the Presidential Personnel Office, is one of several well-entrenched Clinton aides from Arkansas whose influence and portfolio far outweigh their title. It was Scott who developed a taxpayer-funded database that congressional investigators suspect was used to track political benefactors. She attended 18 of the now famous White House coffees for big givers. Whitewater prosecutor Kenneth Starr is expected to have a few questions about a Los Angeles Times report that she made frequent prison visits to her old school chum Webster Hubbell, who has since announced that he will no longer...
...park." As the number of snowmobilers and the attendant problems mount, Yellowstone's management is looking at its options, ranging from setting exhaust limits to imposing a snowmobile ban, moves that would bring howls of protest almost as loud as the machines themselves. Sighs park information officer Marsha Karle: "We're trying to control an industry that doesn't want to be controlled...
...database effort was started in late 1993 under the direction of Marsha Scott, a deputy presidential assistant. She was as guarded as the architect of a Pentagon "black project," working in a locked room of an Old Executive Office Building suite with a private entrance. In a confidential 1994 memo to Hillary Clinton, she argued against competitive bids for the system because they would throw it "open to public scrutiny and inquiry." The database was considered so sensitive that as few as three people were originally expected to have full access...
...Barbie CD-ROMs. With homework, soccer practice and Girl Scout meetings already on their calendars, many girls don't lack for activities. And when they do try their hand at video games, their tastes can run to Mortal Kombat as well as to Oregon Trail. That hardly shocks Marsha Kinder, a professor of critical studies at the University of Southern California School of Cinema-Television. "Those who are urgently trying to reach females end up reinforcing sexist stereotypes, such as 'Girls like cooperative games, not action,'" Kinder says...
...domestic participation and her father for more assistance in child care, she could eliminate some of the stress and chaos that plague her life. Lori's story is predicated on notions of feminine servitude and amounts to self-inflicted bondage. It is doubtful that politicians can solve her dilemma. MARSHA I. FEIGIN New York City...