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...Clinton confessed wrongdoing in his 1998 Paula Jones deposition, fulfilling his part of a deal cut with Independent Counsel Robert Ray and bringing an end to a probe that had dragged on through most of his presidency. But on Saturday, issuing a slew of pardons, Clinton took a major swipe at all the independent counsels who had dogged him and his cabinet. Former HUD secretary Henry Cisneros and his onetime mistress were pardoned. Several figures who were squeezed by longtime Whitewater independent counsel Kenneth Starr, Ray's predecessor - Steve Smith, Robert Palmer, Chris Wade and Susan McDougal - were given dispensation...
...close to tears at the end of Friday - but they haven't been all that adept at providing ready access to the artists. There's a presidential inauguration-like, Puffy Daddy-esque amount of security at the festival. For example, each day VIPs were given different credit card-like swipe cards to gain access the festival and the various restricted tents. I think the almost paranoid amount of security has something to do with the fact that right before the last Rock in Rio, in 1991, Roberto Medina, the festival's founder and guiding spirit, was kidnapped. But that...
...undoubtedly run into violent and public opposition from environmental organizations. Press reps for President-elect Bush, who expressed opposition to a similar proposal during this year's campaign, would only say that he will carefully evaluate each of his predecessor's presidential orders. Spokesman Ari Fleischer took this veiled swipe at Clinton on Friday: "We will not comment on some of these last-minute executive orders that he is pursuing...
...some Tuesday soon, we'll all stroll into spacious well-attended polling places, after a nice breakfast with the family, talking politics, and swipe our voter-ID card and blip in our candidates and press enter, and go home feeling confident our vote's been cast, whistling a happy tune...
Langdell Library, the law school library located behind the Science Center, has it right. Entrance is provided by an ID card swipe, removing the necessity for a checker in that direction, and the electronic surveillance system is trusted to do its job. No checker looks through the books I own to see if they belong to the library, and no checker ignores the other pocket of my bag where I do have library books but he has forgotten to check. Time is saved, money is saved, and books are just as secure...