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...affair with Bill Clinton, and that superlawyer Vernon Jordan was trying to land her a job to buy her silence in the ongoing Paula Jones sexual-harassment suit against the President. The story rang a bell with the prosecutors, who had been pursuing evidence that Jordan helped obtain a lucrative consulting contract for another Clinton pal who was a potential witness in the Whitewater land-deal probe. Starr's team had heard enough from Tripp to wire her up for a planned meeting on Jan. 13 with Lewinsky, who ended up confiding more damaging information about Clinton: she claimed...
...adds that the window of opportunity for being hired after graduating from the GSAS is fairly small, typically no more than seven years. Ideally, potential candidates would teach elsewhere for a few years, publish their work, and then apply for a position on the Harvard faculty. However, professors who obtain tenure track positions at other universities during this time rarely intend to leave, and Kishlansky says his department has “only once ever hired someone who had tenure and gave it up.”The faculty is not primarily composed of Harvard graduates, since...
...issue, it seems likely that Scan and Deliver will also eliminate queues of students waiting for someone to finish using a book. As that student will have the scan of his part of the book, presumably as many students as wish to use the book will be able to obtain their own scans as well. Some fragile books or books so old that they might be damaged by the uploading process will not be available, but these books would not be easily available under the old system either. Those books that face growing damage or wear problems, on the other...
...risks of letting GM fail are high. Economists warn that if it fails, GM is more likely to end up with Chapter 7 bankruptcy liquidation than Chapter 11 restructuring. Given the current credit crunch, the traditional bridge loans available to companies in Chapter 11 are all but impossible to obtain. And few consumers would be likely to buy a car - the sale of which depends on long-term warranties, service and parts - from a company in a bankruptcy reorganization. The Big Three and their affiliated suppliers account for 2% of the U.S. workforce, or more than 2.5 million jobs...
...issue was a lawsuit Franken filed on Thursday in Ramsey County District Court seeking to obtain the names of voters whose absentee ballots were rejected. The Franken campaign hopes to submit the ballots to the State Canvassing Board for consideration; it sued after Ramsey County officials asserted that the data was private. Knaak insisted that by suing, the Franken campaign is violating the privacy of voters. Barr in turn argued the Franken campaign simply wants to ensure that every vote is counted. A judge is expected to issue a ruling on Monday. The Franken campaign believes these ballots, part...