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...questions, the answers to which are in his head and his head alone: Did you have an affair with an intern, Mr. President? And did you encourage her to lie about that affair? He's waiting because he doesn't want to deny anything which might later be proven true. A wise legal move. Unfortunately, it's a devastating ethical move. I don't believe him now. I wanted him to be honestly angry from the beginning, to deny the charges and dismiss them as the ludicrous fantasies of an imaginative young woman. But he did not, not convincingly...
...predicament is all the more surprising since he made $100,000 on his book. With that sort of pot, how could a man with proven skill--a seemingly perfectly sane man who is neither an alcoholic nor a drug addict--possibly find himself homeless for the second time in five years? The simple answer is that, without additional income from a steady job, $100,000 is consumed rather quickly by a middle-class life-style. For starters, income taxes took $22,000 off the top. Eighner ran through the rest in less than three years. He rented a house...
Over the years, The Crimson has proven less successful in attracting and retaining staff members of different ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds, leading some to question the newspaper's ability to cover an increasingly diverse campus...
...result, Clemente knew he would be in a position to get lots of shot opportunities, even as a freshman. He has taken those chances--but adjusting to the demands of playing at the other end of the floor, however, has proven more difficult...
...case, says Arne Owens, a spokesman for the Christian Coalition, "will serve as a wake-up call to people, because what we see is another effort by the homosexual lobby to advance their agenda, and here they're doing it on the backs of children. Traditional family arrangements are proven to work." Gay groups countered with an American Psychological Association study concluding that children of gay parents turn out no better or worse than children of heterosexuals...