Word: travel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Rodham Clinton now faces a crisis that even the most artful public relations may not be able to fix. Within the space of 48 hours last week, the sudden discovery of controversial records has cast new light on her role in two controversies: the purge of the White House Travel Office in 1993 and her work at the Rose Law Firm in Little Rock for Madison Guaranty, the Whitewater savings and loan that lost $60 million of taxpayers' money...
Seemingly out of nowhere, the White House last week released a previously unknown 1993 memo by former administrative aide David Watkins in which he said he fired the travel office staff at the "insistence" of Hillary Clinton. "She conveyed to me in clear terms," Watkins wrote, "...her desire for swift and clear action to resolve the situation." The memo, which Watkins apparently never sent to anyone, contradicts the First Lady's assertions that she had nothing to do with the mass firing...
...book seem subversive when it was first published 183 years ago. For underlying Austen's comedy of manners is a sometimes grim drama about preserving a life-style in a world in which a woman's economic status was dependent on the brilliance of her marriage. The Bennet girls travel in polite society, but they are not as well off as the company they are trying to keep, a point they are not allowed to forget, thanks to the endless derision of people like the snobbish Miss Bingley, played with amusing bite by Anna Chancellor...
Harvard will then travel to RPI to battle the Engineers at Houston Field House tomorrow. The Engineers (5-11-2; 3-4-1 ECAC) are also coming off a successful weekend, tying Princeton Friday, and destroying Yale 6-1 Saturday...
...Village And Other Lessons Children Teach Us," a book about raising children. While Mrs. Clinton intended to focus on her 25 years work on children's issues on her national tour, she is likely to spend much of her time fielding questions on Whitewater and her handling of the travel office scandal...