Word: reade
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...aides had something else in mind. They had been listening all week long to the Republican moderates whose votes could save the President from the impeachment that now looks likely to come this week. By Friday, Republican brokers had even fed them some actual lines for him to read, the very script that they thought just might save him--and them--from months of hell. The fence sitters weren't looking for an apology; they were looking for an admission. Say you lied, and we'll let you go free...
...authorized the CIA to begin covert operations to break up bin Laden's terror network. The agency's counterterrorism center--200 operatives housed in a windowless warren of cubicles in the CIA's Langley, Va., headquarters--had set up a special bin Laden task force. Analysts were assigned to read every word the Saudi had spoken or written. Computers with sophisticated "link analysis" programs were busy printing out diagrams of bin Laden's loose-knit network, which included thousands of Muslim fighters with varying degrees of allegiance to him in almost a dozen countries. In early 1996, intelligence sources tell...
...without restrictions an even more contemporary book: The Starr Report. In Rhode Island last June eighth-grade English teacher Brian Cabral was verbally attacked by his principal over a vulgarity in Go Ask Alice, a 1971 novel dealing with drug addiction. The principal conceded he had not read the whole book, which tends to be the case in most book challenges, and Cabral was ultimately cleared in a committee review. "If the kids had not been supportive, I would have left teaching," he says. "It was worse than I could have imagined." Notes Patricia Graham, former dean of Harvard...
...read "Students Protest Transgender Deaths" (Dec. 11) with a growing sense of confusion. The concept of a "hate crime" is one which I have had problems with for some time. The death of Rita (William) Hester is without question a tragedy. However, I fail to see why Hester's gender should make her (his) death any more or less tragic. Murder is already illegal, and stigmatized by society about as much as possible. Creating a sliding scale based on motive for the severity of society's punishment for murders-or indeed for any crime-will not reduce the incidence...
Some participants even mocked proimpeachmentparticipants. Matthew N. Stoller '00 held aplacard that read "Impeach Clinton... I am anIdiot...