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...Skver turned out in force for Hillary, she invited the group's spiritual leader to the White House, where he asked the President to lighten the men's sentences. The subsequent commutations only heightened suspicions - vehemently denied by Clinton and the Skver - that there was a quid pro quo for their support on Election Day. And if that weren't bad enough, there was also the matter of $190,000 in gifts, including $7,000 in furniture from Denise Rich, that Bill and Hillary hauled in as they were leaving the White House - which means that President Clinton's final...
Serious troubles started this past fall semester when Rice's Athletics Director asked that KTRU double the number of baseball and women's basketball games it broadcasts. The Advisory Committee eventually decided on a formula halfway between the status quo and the proposal. Simultaneously, two Rice DJs lodged a public protest. The two arrived for their punk-ska shift on one day in late November and discovered that a women's basketball game had not yet ended. Angry, the two decided to broadcast their show right over the basketball broadcast stream...
...fearsome mobile howitzer. It is also among the costliest and heaviest ever built. And because of all that, it may be one of the fattest targets for the Bush Defense Department. Incoming Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is under orders from the new Commander in Chief "to challenge the status quo inside the Pentagon." Rumsfeld will almost certainly be backed by Dick Cheney, his protege and the new Vice President. Cheney shocked the Pentagon during his tenure there a decade ago when he killed the Navy's pet A-12 jet and tried to cancel the Marines' V-22 tilt-rotor...
...Cynthia Estlund: Generally the definition of that relationship depends on the degree of control the employer exercises over the employee. Was there a direct quid pro quo? We know money exchanged hands, but was it for specific jobs? If the answer is yes, then Mercato was an employee...
Bush seems to be very serious about keeping his promises on the military. Thursday he promised a billion-dollar pay raise for service members, talked at length about remaking the military with modern technology, and promised Rumsfeld would "challenge the status quo at the Pentagon." And he's not interested in grandstanders or hot-button types, just old hands who can get the job done. Even if he risks looking like the only kid at the grown-up table...