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...contained damaging charges that Jordan gave Clinton regular updates about his efforts to find Lewinsky a job, and that Clinton for weeks didn't tell Jordan about the sexual allegations or the fact that Lewinsky had been called as a possible witness in the Paula Jones sexual-harassment suit. By making it appear that Clinton was using Jordan without his knowledge to ensure Lewinsky's cooperation in the suit, the leak looked like the work of a man out to save his own skin no matter what happened to Clinton's. As Jordan has said, according to a friend...
However, others say that non-medical laboratory work or community service suit them better...
Starr was facing more accusations last week of being too closely involved with the Paula Jones legal team. Robert Bennett, Clinton's attorney in the Jones suit, had filed a subpoena requesting Kirkland & Ellis, the law firm in which Starr still serves as a private attorney, to turn over any materials related to work it may have done on behalf of Jones. Though the firm has never formally represented Jones or any other party to the case, Bennett wants to know, among other things, who at Kirkland & Ellis faxed the Chicago Tribune a copy of an affidavit in the Jones...
...suit also cites the defendants'"...failure to inform [Ho] of Tadesse's troubles." But wouldn't that be a breach of rights? Should everyone who gets mental health counseling be branded with a scarlet letter "D" for "possibly disturbed"? The possibility of having your personal problems revealed to your peers would probably decrease the number of people who would seek counseling when they need it, for fear of becoming a pariah...
...This suit would only have merit if it could prove the defendants had access to sufficient evidence that Tadesse posed a threat to others and then willfully chose to not take any measures to prevent possible negative consequences. What the suit alleges the defendants should have done would indicate that the defendants had both clairvoiance about Tadesse's ability to become violent, and the ability and willingness to violate personal rights to privacy of Harvard students. CHI WANG '95 Medford, Mass...