Word: reasonings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...privilege Clinton still retains, and has apparently exercised as many as five times, is the right to resist appearing before the grand jury himself. The White House has offered a couple of excuses: The President is too busy; the President distrusts questions from Ken Starr. The real reason for his reticence, if William Ginsburg is to be believed, may be little more than embarassment. In an open letter to California Lawyer magazine , the Lewinsky attorney congratulated Starr on doing nothing more than "unmasking a sexual relationship between two consenting adults." Whether that's the independent counsel's privilege...
...signs of a hydrothermal system found by the Surveyor hint at a thicker, more Earth-like atmosphere during the planet's first couple billion years. High temperatures may also be one reason the planet is now red. The Greeks thought the Martian color meant war and destruction; Surveyor may end up proving it means creation...
...patriotism) is the wave of the future. The fall of the Berlin Wall ushered in today's new world order. And there are other peaceful examples, such as Czechoslovakia, which separated quietly. In Africa colonial powers did not draw borders to accommodate different tribes, and perhaps that is the reason for the ever reappearing ethnic conflict between Hutu and Tutsi, who were bundled into one state (Rwanda). Isn't it time to realize that every nation or group of people with a common descent, language and history should have the right of self-government? JAN RIJN ZEEVAART Pretoria...
Last week, after India conducted its nuclear tests, President Clinton, in an unusual approach to policy, explained India's feelings. "They believe that they have been underappreciated in the world as a great power," he said. "And they think one reason may be that they're not an out-front, out-of-the-closet, open nuclear power. Well, I think they've been underappreciated myself." Because the President may be facing this crisis without adequate advice from a celebrity psychologist, we asked Dr. Joyce Brothers to talk to us about a hypothetical work situation in which a colleague feels underappreciated...
...necessarily punished, but counseled. If this person doesn't want to share with a counselor, then there's a real reason to carefully terminate the person. You don't want to wait until four men in your department are killed to take it seriously...