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...young ex-confidant. Montanarelli also thinks another set of tapes -- of conversations between Tripp and New York literary agent Lucianne Goldberg -- may be just the thing to make his case. Good luck: TIME Washington correspondent Michael Weisskopf says that Special Prosecutor Ken Starr's interest in Tripp will probably trump any state investigation...
Perhaps newsworthiness does trump this warm and fuzzy issue of spirit, but does it trump a commitment to a basic code of reporting policies? After all, most Kuumba members did not have a problem with the story itself, but rather to how the story was reported. "I agree it was newsworthy, and I am glad the story was written," says Brunton, "but not this way, not by pulling people's private e-mails. You don't expect this from a reputable news source, you don't expect it from The Crimson." Kristin Williams '00, vice president of Kuumba, was more...
Spring is upon us, and rap impresario SEAN ("Puffy") COMBS' sap must be rising. He decided to make love en plein air (but not, interestingly, with the mother of his newborn son). Alas, Combs, who thought he was enjoying the privacy of Donald Trump's Palm Beach, Fla., Mar-a-Lago Club, had strayed onto the sand of the veddy conservative Bath & Tennis Club. A B&T member took offense at the frolicking and sent a club official to stop it; according to the Palm Beach Daily News, an unabashed Puffy blasted the official for "ruining his concentration." A spokeswoman...
...short of confirmation, the opposition mounted a court challenge against his renomination by Yeltsin. "In these situations, people can become hostage to their own propaganda," says Zarakhovich. "The opposition may have gone further down this road than they had intended to." While dissolving the legislature has been Yeltsin's trump card, "the opposition may be confident enough of winning new elections to fight all the way," says Zarakhovich. "And this is Russia, where emotions can easily take over rationally laid plans...
...final modern trump card has evolved for development officers seeking to avoid the Newsboy scholarships of their day. Nearly all large gifts to Harvard are now made with the stipulation that Harvard may shift the funds away from the intended use if that purpose becomes outdated...