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...recent years, colleges and universities have turned to the Internet as a potentially revolutionary teaching medium. Some, like Virginia Northern Community College, have taken the concept to an extreme, allowing students to enroll in and receive credit for college courses without ever stepping foot on campus. Other schools, like Stanford, Princeton, Yale and Harvard, have steered away from offering full-fledged courses, instead moving toward making certain educational materials available to alumni. The area has also been the target of a few commercial ventures...
...ASHCROFT'S Justice Department over a new wrinkle in the probe of the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia. After DOJ decided to yank the investigation from outgoing U.S. Attorney WILMA LEWIS and give it to prosecutors in the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Eastern District of Virginia, Lewis steamed that the move was "the latest gambit in an ongoing effort by Director Freeh to move this case from this office, which would not accede to his demands as to how the case should be prosecuted." Freeh and Lewis have long battled over how to proceed...
...weeks ago was deeply divided. Whitman's EPA wanted to stand by the campaign promise. The State and Treasury departments wanted to finesse the issue by deferring action. And political director Ken Mehlman wanted to abandon the promise, calling it a liability in states like coal-rich West Virginia, which Bush won last year after decades of Democratic dominance. All three options were presented to Bush...
...steaming response to a decision by DOJ officials to yank the probe from her office and give it to prosecutors in Virginia, U.S. Attorney Wilma Lewis said the action was "not only ill-conceived and ill-considered, but is the latest gambit in an ongoing effort by Director Freeh to move this case from this office, which would not accede to his demands as to how the case should be prosecuted...
...Freeh's persistent complaints to Justice Department headquarters finally bore fruit this week, when Acting Deputy Attorney General Robert Mueller pulled the case and gave it to the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Eastern District of Virginia at Freeh's request - prompting Lewis' fiery comments, which were not exactly the norm for a federal official...