Word: rejected
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...strain eager smiles for potential donors, but the Texas governor has let the party come to him. Last week a muscular troika of rainmakers that included investment banker Henry Kravis, oilman John Moran and fund manager Lewis Eisenberg made the pilgrimage. Rival camps are terrified that Bush will reject federal matching funds and the campaign-spending limits they impose, and Bush?s aides are coy on the subject. Why pass up the free money? To compete with Steve Forbes and his unlimited wallet, say Bush supporters who are quick to recount that the publisher?s spending spree nearly crippled...
...that was last month--a million news cycles ago. The pencils aren't so sharp anymore, and the jurors are passing notes and acting up. While they voted last week to reject Monica Lewinsky as a live witness and wrap up the trial by this Friday, Senators were twitching in their seats. Democrats teased their colleague Russ Feingold for voting with the Republicans, and the President's lawyer Greg Craig traded laughs with staunch Republican Don Nickles. During a break, the G.O.P.'s Strom Thurmond, 96, drew clementines from his pockets and, with a flirtatious grin, passed them to Cheryl...
...while teaching law part time at New York University, Ken Starr wanted his students to understand that a good trial lawyer always argues passionately, even for positions he would reject if he were the judge. So Starr turned his classroom into a moot court and pleaded--of all things--Bill Clinton's most famous court failure: the President's argument that as long as he remained in office, the Constitution immunized him from Paula Jones' civil lawsuit...
Public activism is only part of the story. The panoply of overused 90s buzz words--from "community action" to "political activism" to "service learning"--all refer to the same value. These words describe activities that reject the status quo (and the everlurking ambert). Many students here unconsciously harbor a rebellious nature, even while dining on fine china and staring into the grave eyes of John Adams, Class of 1754 or Charles Eliot, Class of 1853. In this every-other-week column, I will attempt to revive and unearth this modicum of resistance, buried within even the most apathetic Harvard student...
...jail; kill a hundred and you'll get a deal. That old adage of India's gangsters may apply equally to international terrorists. Afghanistan's Taliban rulers announced Friday that Osama bin Laden has been gagged and his activities restricted, but they continue to reject Washington's calls to surrender him for trial over the bombing of U.S. embassies in Africa. The announcement follows a meeting with British officials earlier this week, at which the Taliban were asked to "get control of" the alleged super-terrorist -- an approach the Afghanis hailed as "more reasonable" than Washington's extradition demands...