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...been only a few years since the one major news story was the relationship between President Bill Clinton and intern Monica Lewinsky. Trysts at the Oval Office, the cigar, the Starr Report and millions of dollars spent on uncovering the most personal details of a presidents’ life were not the most productive uses of our government’s, the media’s or, frankly, our own time...
...torture acceptable in the fight against terrorism? It has been reported that former Clinton special prosecutor Kenneth Starr has asked the question aloud while speculating that as many as five U.S. Supreme Court justices would find torture constitutional in certain circumstances. No forceful denials by any justice have been heard publicly. Bruce Hoffman, an analyst with the Rand Corporation, asks the torture question aloud in the January edition of the Atlantic Monthly, citing a movie about French tactics in Algeria and tactics used in Sri Lanka. President George W. Bush has formulated a new military tribunal to try terrorists that...
Lopez noted that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit accepted such an argument in a 1998 case rejecting a subpoena of research records by Microsoft. In that case, the software giant had sought records from David B. Yoffie, Starr professor of international business administration at Harvard Business School, and MIT Professor Michael A. Cusumano, to defend itself in the federal government’s anti-trust lawsuit...
Lopez noted that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit accepted such an argument in a 1998 case rejecting a subpoena of research records by Microsoft. In that case, the software giant had sought records from David B. Yoffie, Starr professor of international business administration at Harvard Business School, and MIT Professor Michael A. Cusumano, to defend itself in the federal government’s anti-trust lawsuit...
...White House), Enron effectively made itself a leper in distress. Ashcroft is off the case, Lindsey and Rove will be busily burying themselves in other matters, and Bush's best defense against a scandal will be to make sure Justice's special Enron-dedicated task force makes Ken Starr look like he went easy on the Clintons...