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...Masters' response to the push for keycard access has been profoundly disheartening. In a meeting with students and administrators Feb. 15, three of the four House Masters in attendance--representing Eliot, Mather and Pforzheimer--lined up against the student body's persistent request for 24-hour universal keycard access to all Houses...
Williams and Gayle said the meeting, which was closed to the press at Mansfield's request and restricted to BSA members, will be the last step the BSA takes in responding to Mansfield...
...fast. Later that day, Rich's New York lawyer, ROBERT FINK, sent a worried e-mail to fellow members of the Rich legal team, an e-mail that became public at last week's congressional hearing. Fink's warning: "[JACK QUINN] said that the SEC knows of the request and for some reason opposed it." Leave it to Quinn, a former White House counsel who personally lobbied Clinton for the pardon, to jump on a hot tip that might help his client at the last minute...
...Department if he had inquired. Last week, Clinton's national security adviser, Sandy Berger, said he also was not consulted, joining federal prosecutors in the Rich case who have complained they were shut out of the decision. It should be noted that had the State Department received the same request this winter it might have been more sympathetic, since the Clinton administration was at pains to help now defeated Israeli prime minister Barak hold on to office...
...course nobody's going to accuse President Bush of wagging the dog for ordering Friday?s air strike by 24 U.S. and British warplanes against five air-defense command centers near Baghdad. Not that President Clinton would have responded any differently to a request by the military to undertake what the Pentagon sees as a force-protection action. Probably as part of an effort to test the resolve the new administration in Washington, Iraqi air defenses had in recent weeks begun aggressively "painting" allied warplanes patrolling the "no-fly" zone with radar signals that enable surface-to-air missile strikes...