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...There is no quid pro quo per se," Getz says. "At Harvard, a donor's place is to [donate], not run the University...
Dershowitz, however, said Clinton did not commit a crime unless there was not commit a crime unless there was an "explicit quid pro quo"--an exchange of Clinton's power to delay the closing of the failing Madison Guaranty for funds for his 1984 campaign debt...
...required license, but it is not easy to find the new mom-and-pop enterprises. Canadian mining executive Bill McGuinty thinks his Cuban co-workers are eager to learn capitalist ways -- up to a point. They are shocked by his attempts to bypass bureaucracy and befuddled by the quid pro quos of networking. "It will take a while for the mentality to change," he says. "They have gone from 34 years of working together to every man for himself...
...Last Monday Packwood responded to such reports by insisting, "For the life of me I do not understand . . . whatever this other thing may be that may be criminal." But within 24 hours he reversed himself, allowing, "The issue was employment opportunities for my wife and whether there was some quid pro quo on legislation...
Packwood's former wife told the Post that she had no reason to think that Packwood had offered his friends any political favors in exchange for job offers -- a quid pro quo that could be illegal. She told the Oregonian newspaper, however, that when one of the lobbyists, Steven Saunders, called Packwood to see if his offer of work might present the Senator with a conflict of interest, Packwood's response surprised Saunders. "Bob wanted to know, 'How much money do you think you could pay her? How much money could she earn a year?' " she said. "Bob got coercive...