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...subpoenaed its financial records. He's also charging that donations to the separate Paula Jones Legal Fund are being diverted to pay for her hair care, jewelry and clothing. Institute leaders call the subpoena an attempt to harass them for defending Jones, and have asked a federal judge to quash...
...Libya brought the case before the United Nations' highest judicial body, hoping it would quash once and for all U.S. and British attempts to get the suspects extradited...
...White House who was subpoenaed by Paula Jones' lawyer, Joseph Cammarata, after he received an anonymous tip that the President had made a grab for her. Willey's lawyer said she has no information relevant to Paula Jones or Bill Clinton, and he is filing a motion to quash the subpoena. But that hardly cooled the frenzy. Two "friends" of Willey's told reporters that something happened--they don't agree about what--one day when Willey visited the President at the Oval Office. And one of those sources peddled to a supermarket tabloid a stock photo of Willey with...
...17th Century persecution of Galileo for his observation that the Earth revolves around the Sun, Harkin said it was wrong of President Clinton to ban all such research, and wrong of Senator Chris Bond to propose legislation making the ban permanent. Freedom of inquiry is too precious to quash out of simple fear of the profound uncertainties inherent in duplicating human beings, Harkin riposted: "Human cloning will take place, and it will take place in my lifetime. I don't fear it at all. I welcome...
...last year, had finally run out of steam. While Starr insisted repeatedly that his decision had nothing to do with the state of the investigation, nobody was buying. "If a message has been inadvertently sent,? he said hopefully, ?that message has been corrected." Maybe not. Starr sounded desperate to quash any hopes that the investigation was winding down, answering one reporter's question about "the people's right to know" with a thoughtful promise to "seriously consider" what he called "the public information function." How could a Washington denizen like Starr so grossly underestimate his own significance as the head...