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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...protests against ROTC catalyzed changesthat would permanently alter the campus climate.They brought the end to a time when facultyfrequently visited dining halls and a dress coderequired students to sport suit ties to meals...
Members are no longer bound by the old suit-collar-and tie-dress code: colorful, flowing African robes now stand out among the charcoal and the pinstripes, and one white A.N.C. member has been seen sporting a Nehru jacket. The A.N.C.'s Frene Ginwala, an Indian lawyer who is the nation's first female Speaker, took her seat last week in a sari rather than the usual House of Lords-style robe and trimmings...
...accept the resignation of yet another politically naive official from Arkansas who took a Marine helicopter ride to a golf course. Further disclosures about the First Lady's commodities trading competed for space in newspaper columns with questions about the President's legal strategy over a sexual-harassment suit. Congress missed the White House's Memorial Day deadline for marking up health-care-reform legislation. Several White House officials said the best reason for taking the week-long tour of Italy, Britain and France is simply to escape from Washington for a while. "This," sighed a West Wing aide...
While Clinton quickly dispatched the Watkins episode, his own ethical controversies require far more sensitive handling. White House counsel Lloyd Cutler indicated last week that he would ask a federal judge in Little Rock to postpone consideration of Paula Corbin Jones' sexual-harassment suit against Clinton on the grounds that a President should not be distracted by civil litigation while in office. Cutler's strategy would seem to avoid the suggestion that the President is above the law while postponing the possibility of unseemly depositions until later. This legal course virtually ensures that Clinton can avoid dealing with the Jones...
Young Mrs. Kennedy, in her early 30s, in the pillbox hat, or the bloody pink suit, or the black veil, became one of the urdivinities of the paleotelevision age. By the time she died, she was still arguably the most famous woman on earth. Who else -- Madonna? Princess Di? (The falloff in quality is steep...