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WASHINGTON: With Monica Lewinsky's absence giving the Capital a bit of a breather, the talk has turned to how the Clinton Administration can narrow the scope of Ken Starr's relentless inquiry. And the answer is two words: Executive privilege. Invoking the rights of White House employees on the basis of national security, Washington lawyers say, could delay the independent counsel's investigation and provoke a protracted court battle. "What they are discussing is what witnesses will be able to talk about ... with certain privileges to protect," one official told...
...Social Security and Medicare exceptions? Perhaps in other areas of policy, special interests do use large donations to get their way. Consider trade policy, for example. Many analysts believe that narrow, protectionist interests regularly run roughshod over the interest of the public. The public, however, appears to believe otherwise. Polls show a large proportion of Americans are in fact quite sympathetic to protectionism. By 57 percent to 36 percent, for example, Americans oppose additional trade agreements with Latin American countries. And by 54 percent to 34 percent, Americans believe that world trade destroys more jobs in the U.S. than...
...preachers from rural Texas, Virginia and Tennessee. "I listened to the way they whoop," he says, "then hold the note and cut it with a cadence." If you expect a Jimmy Swaggart-style spellbinder, who coaxes near operatic melodrama from his rich baritone, E.F. will disappoint you. The narrow range of Duvall's voice can convey muscle and danger; the music is lacking. His whoop is a thing of will, not an expression of soulful exuberance. For that, listen to the real preachers Duvall hired for small roles. Black or white, they'll have you lining up to be baptized...
...narrow brick building on 14 Plympton St., which houses The Harvard Crimson, has seen everything from a vodka-sipping cat to bathroom graffiti wars--and even the occasional newspaper being published...
...message to narrow-minded, short-sighted, vested-interest fools: Don't play politics with my planet. In the face of vast amounts of evidence about global warming, these Neros would fiddle while the earth literally burns. There may come a time when common citizens seek justice for the suffering wrought by environmental criminals. In the current atmosphere of rampant greed, it may be difficult to imagine such a scenario. But unless some form of enlightenment quickly spurs the leaders of all nations to adopt measures even stricter than those agreed to in Kyoto, the tribunals are inevitable, and there will...