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...confidential conversation with his minister, his doctor, his lawyer." Republicans, however, suspect the notes may show the lawyers were planning to use confidential government information on two pending Whitewater investigations to try to hinder the probes. As the deadline neared, the White House offered a compromise, agreeing to relinquish the notes under certain conditions. But a bitterly divided Senate committee voted 10 to 8 along party lines to reject the deal and seek enforcement of the subpoena. Soon afterward, the White House signaled that only one of the disputed conditions really mattered: other investigative bodies, as well as independent counsel...
...hard to ignore the novelist Roth in the puppeteer Sabbath. As an author, he invites the comparison. While test-driving coffins, Roth creates Sabbath who is grotesque essentially because he is old. Granted, he is a hard-used, degenerate failure, unwilling or unable to relinquish the brutish virility that got him this far. He is that fairly innocuous, vaguely threatening monster: the lecher, the dirty...
...British and Irish governments issued a communique on Northern Ireland that could bring Sinn Fein, the political arm of the Irish Republican Army, to the negotiating table. But the i.r.a. has yet to relinquish some of its arms--an issue the British regard as crucial to a final peace accord. The signing came just before the son of Virginia Cassidy Blythe Clinton Kelley arrived in Northern Ireland--the first U.S. President ever to visit there. Greeted by enthusiastic crowds, both Protestant and Roman Catholic, Clinton clearly rejoiced in his role as designated peacemaker. One Irish-American politician accompanying the President...
...relinquish anything to the Ad Board," says Rosenthal. "We are not administrators, we are health care providers...[and] we are not involved with the police, the dean's office or the tutors...
Harvard has been a perennial power in squash for the past half-century, and, after Saturday's 9-0 sweeps of Cornell and Franklin & Marshall at Hemenway Gymnasium, the Crimson showed it has no plans to relinquish its rule over the collegiate squash world...