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...worst case scenario: Lewinsky comes into occasional contact with the President, who is a bit too friendly. She doesn't resist his glances, and is all too happy to follow him into that room behind the Oval Office. She is willing to do whatever the leader of the free world would like; he is willing to engage in a bit of, shall we say, stimulation with a woman less than half his age. Heck, he's got the Secret Service in his back pocket. If he can get away with the Gennifer Flowers affair, with refusing to settle with Paula...
...possible, as Harper says, that an older scholar may resist new modes of thinking, though we certainly hope to avoid making that kind of appointment. But it is at least equally possible that after receiving tenure a younger scholar may grow comfortable, cease to pursue active scholarship and resist new modes of thinking. There are many good reasons for promoting Faculty members "from within," but doing so cannot guarantee that a department will thereby be made more vital and interesting in the long run. In many tenure-track departments the reverse has in fact happened...
...enough to be legally insane. The defense strategy for his trial, which began this week, had appeared to be set. His lawyers had planned to argue that he suffered from paranoid schizophrenia, which made him incapable of forming the intent to commit a premeditated crime. But paranoid schizophrenics typically resist being labeled mentally ill, and Kaczynski proved to be all too typical. On Dec. 18 he wrote a letter to complain to U.S. District Judge Garland Burrell Jr., who quickly summoned Kaczynski and his lawyers to his chambers to discuss Kaczynski's "concerns." The Harvard-educated defendant, it turned...
...asking people to resist the temptation of big tax cuts," says TIME White House correspondent Karen Tumulty, "by trying to make credible what he's been saying for years: that the budget can actually get balanced." The lesson -- live within your means -- is not particularly sexy politically. But Clinton feels that Americans asked him to clean up the deficits of the Reagan and Bush years, tax-cut-fueled deficits which Monday he called "the failed policies of the past." Now he's offering to finish...
...thought before the Hubble Space Telescope came along. New images released last week show that the process is more complex and violent than anyone believed. Supersonic jets of particles and dense clots of dust warp the glowing gas into a variety of fantastic shapes that even scientists can't resist nicknaming. It'll happen to the sun too--but luckily, not for another 5 billion years, give or take a billion...