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...advantage went to Jones when the Washington Times reported that Clinton's long-anticipated deposition in the suit would be heard on Jan. 17 in the White House and that Jones would be there to look him in the eye. Because the time and place are supposed to be secret, they both may change. But Bennett also says he will make no move to challenge Jones' right to attend. Plaintiffs in civil cases often do, though they can't ask questions themselves. The mere thought of her sitting across from Clinton with a fixed expression was enough to gain...
That's the secret, really. Don't write out "TIME!!!" in inch-high scrawl--it only brings out the sadist in us. Don't (Cliffiers) write offers to come over and read aloud to us your illegible remarks--we can (officially) read anything, and we may be married. Write on both sides of the page--single bluebook finals look like less work to grade and win points. This chic, shaded calligraphic script so many are affecting lately is handsome, and is probably worth a good extra five points if you can hack...
This forthrightness on Thompson's part, saying that he did not in fact recuse himself from the process of testifying before the President--even under the allegation of a readily-apparent conflict of interest--seems to undermine the claim of the Berkowitz camp that Thompson secretly intervened at the top levels of the administration to bias the ad hoc committee against Berkowitz. Thompson has made clear his professional disapproval of Berkowitz (through his negative department vote and this comment), and therefore had no need to subvert the process in order to affect the Berkowitz tenure decision. We will never know...
...resolved, and we don't know whether there was a liberal-conservative deal at the departmental level, and we don't know whether there was behind-the-scenes manipulation of the ad hoc committee or the President, and we don't know whether Berkowitz was himself critiqued in the secret letters to the President--fairly or unfairly, as a Straussian, or simply as a theorist--we do know that last spring's tenure denials were just one more season in the life of academic politics...
...reserve positions. "If you don't want to tell me, that's fine," Summers advised his counterpart. "But you have to tell somebody." On Thanksgiving, Clinton told Kim Young Sam by telephone that radical surgery was needed to attract foreign investors. But the White House kept the call secret for weeks, lest it spook the markets further...