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...merit should be the determining factors in admissions, because these skills, such as artistic or athletic talent, add significantly to the quality of the overall educational environment of a college. At no point, though, should race even need to enter the considerations. When it does, it raises the ugly specter of racial discrimination, which is unacceptable, regardless of who is being discriminated against...
...suicide mission. The G.O.P. lacks the votes as well as the stomach to do it alone, and the House judiciary panel is hopelessly divided by party and ideology: Bob Barr vs. Barney Frank sounds like a special weeklong edition of Crossfire, not a constitutional crisis. Senate Republican Arlen Specter came right out and drew the line: "Unless there is an open-and-shut case, the kind which would result in a resignation, as happened with President Nixon, I do not think there ought be an impeachment proceeding...
INDEPENDENT COUNSEL: Know when to fold. That extraordinary driveway press encounter, in which you lapsed into Spanish and claimed Dragnet's Jack Webb as your hero, did not inspire confidence. Right after that, your ally Senator Arlen Specter hinted that you might want to spare Republicans a long national nightmare unless you have an open-and-shut case. But your crusade is all the chattering classes have left. Better that you be the first I.C. to prosecute a cover-up of a sin, not a crime, than that we return to covering IMF funding and NATO expansion...
...Harvard] always said they were never going todo hedge funds with side investors because theydidn't want to give up profits," Gordon said. "Itraises the specter that they realize that whatthey've been doing in the past isn't as successfulas it could have been...
...Democrats, of course, are on the attack, but Republicans have a trickier play: How to support Starr as an enemy of Bill without attaching your name to the investigator's ghastly approval ratings? Arlen Specter hedged with the 'if true' approach: "Unless there is an open and shut case, the kind which would result in a resignation, as happened with President Nixon, I do not think there ought be an impeachment proceeding...