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Representative Bill Clinger, chairman of the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee investigating Filegate, indicated that based on news reports (namely the diary excerpts of call girl Sherry Rowlands in the Star) he will seek either a voluntary deposition or a sworn interrogatory statement from Morris concerning the political consultant's alleged claim that Hillary Clinton was behind the improper review of 900 confidential FBI files...
Second, intense political discussions never really seem to arise. Bars are too noisy, and the subject matter is too boring. Besides, many of us are very entranced by the fact that we have been sworn to secrecy about the particulars of our jobs--why, indeed, would I write a column on social concerns when if I could tell you about the secret files I have access to in my unnamed workplace?--that we tend to shy away from any discussion even alluding to the government...
...calling itself the Bangalima, after a famous tribe of warriors from the central Zairian rain forest, recently launched a series of attacks on Zairian army posts and local Hutu. Avid fetishists, often fighting naked and using charms that they believe turn enemy bullets into water, the Bangalima fighters have sworn to drive all Hutu from Zaire. A letter received last month by the local representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees threatened a "bloodbath" in the refugee camps if all 750,000 Hutu were not repatriated within 15 days...
...lawyers deny that he was running any kind of freelance operation. He was so busy trying to process background checks on Clinton staff members, they say, that he never had time to pay attention to, or even initiate, Project Update. At the White House Friday, Livingstone signed a sworn statement saying he had not asked anyone to obtain the FBI files and that he had not disclosed the information to anyone "for any improper purpose whatsoever." But Livingstone's know-nothing defense does not seem to be winning him any points inside the White House. That Livingstone "doesn't appear...
...Prime Minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee, was sworn in last week, but only because his party and its allies took the largest single bloc in the 545-member chamber. Vajpayee faces an uphill struggle to hold on to power, however. He must survive a constitutionally mandated vote of confidence before May 31, and his alliance is 74 seats short of a majority. Though buying political loyalty is not unheard of in India, recruiting that many politicians so quickly would be difficult even under normal circumstances--and these are hardly normal...