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...slips you might expect after 12 hours of testimony. Hardened attorneys don't crack. Starr is eerily Clintonian at times. He hides behind his "professional staff," and when confronted with the charge that he'd intimidated a witness by questioning the legitimacy of her long-ago adoption of a Romanian orphan, he shifts responsibility to them, saying, "I don't go with my FBI agents on every single interview." He dodges when asked whether he wanted to wire Monica to get the goods on Clinton, even when reminded of it by an FBI report and Lewinsky's sworn testimony...
...Oval Office. Investigators have combed through Steele's bank, credit and phone records, called her daughter and other family members before the grand jury, questioned her friends and neighbors and subpoenaed her tax accountant twice. They have even been inquiring about the legality of her 1990 adoption of a Romanian orphan. All these moves are apparently intended to determine whether her version of the Willey story was somehow influenced by Clinton allies. Steele says the adoption is legal in both Romania...
Dumitru and Camelia Moceanu had the greatest of expectations for their daughter Dominique--even before she was born. The Romanian gymnasts, who had defected to the U.S. during the cold war, made a pact that their first-born would follow in their footsteps--even if they had to "just drink water and eat bread." Dumitru had his baby girl hanging by her hands from a clothesline at six months and tumbling in her first gymnastics class at age three. It paid off. Soon after her 10th birthday, they left their jobs in Tampa, Fla.--Camelia worked in a hair salon...
...Maya Carison, Professor of Population and International Health, Psychiatry, and Neurobiology at Harvard School of Public Health and Harvard Medical School, will speak on "Behavioral and neuroendocrinological consequences of social deprivation in Romanian orphans." Loker Room...
...very principles of the Communist ideology were constructed. The willingness of people to volunteer was a central assumption to the application of Communism. One might think, then, that community service would be intrinsic to a society indoctrinated with these ideas for almost half of a century. Paradoxically, though, the Romanian society is averse and sarcastic to anything that involves the concept of volunteering...