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...trying to warn that the gnarled, calloused hand of Mr. Prudent Harvard Administrator will soon bring the same penalty upon WHRB for some trumped-up violation. I believe that WHRB long has struck a responsible balance, between its various stakeholders and the administration, that has been most helpful to it. The important message here is that in conflict, university administrators wield power and students do not. By themselves, students represent a creative and energetic but ultimately weak group for achieving goals...
...deal that everybody wanted is done. Bill Clinton on Friday admitted making wrongful testimony in the Paula Jones case and is barred from practicing law in Arkansas for five years after he, Independent Counsel Robert Ray and Arkansas judge Susan Webber Wright struck a three-way deal for the knotting of all of Clinton's loose legal ends...
...with about 24 hours left in Clinton's term apparently realized that getting a jury to convict an ex-president with 65 percent job approval ratings of perjury and obstruction of justice in a civil suit was going to be a fruitless enterprise. So he and Clinton struck a deal, which was then leaked to the media Friday morning, sans details. Friday afternoon, in the middle of George W. Bush's three-day inaugural festivities, Clinton filled his end of the bargain - with press secretary Jake Siewert mouthing the words...
...finally, General Colin Powell essentially moved through a receiving line of welcoming senators on the Foreign Relations Committee, many of whom stayed after the hearings to shake the secretary of state-designate's hand and mingle around him like star-struck teenagers. There were a few pointed questions about Powell's take on committing U.S. troops and national missile defense, but for the most part, the queries sounded more like valedictories. "Without question, General Powell's experience at the highest levels of government... makes him well qualified to be secretary of state," enthused Senator Joe Biden. No one doubts Powell...
They give no warnings. They leave few clues. But a band of environmental terrorists, which has left a trail of destruction across the Western and Midwestern U.S. for the past three years, is making no secret of its ambition to wage a wider war. In recent weeks it has struck on the East Coast, hitting targets on New York's Long Island...