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...deans. One of the elder faculty members at Andover has commented that the school has lost a great deal of its former stuffiness, and that he believes the school has developed a sort of delightful "sassiness" that contrasts sharply with the red brick, granite steps, and somber wood paneling...

Author: By Allen C. Soong, | Title: The New-Boy Network | 2/26/1993 | See Source »

Only during exam period--when more students finally decide to crack open a few books--does life appear among the ugly wood paneling. But it's safe to say that more students use government documents on a regular basis throughout the semester than cram on Lamont's first floor during reading and exam period...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Room for Growth | 2/23/1993 | See Source »

...language as a synonym for trouble. Along with "the Gary Hart syndrome," signifying compulsive womanizing, we now have "the Zoe Baird problem," meaning child-care infractions. Its chief usage is in the accusative: "Do you have a Zoe Baird problem?" That was the question that brought down Kimba Wood as a candidate for Attorney General (even though her answer was "No"). It was also the question that helped pluck the childless and unmarried Janet Reno from relative obscurity to become the President's nominee for the job. No kids, no nanny, no Zoe Baird problem. Reno, 54, who appears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Lessons Of Nannygate | 2/22/1993 | See Source »

They had better not. After the President's political advisers determined that Americans are too dumb to understand the difference between Zoe Baird, who knowingly violated the law by employing two illegal aliens and paying them off the books, and Kimba Wood, who legally employed an alien and filed all the required taxes, they discovered that -- oops! -- they had inadvertently created a new hiring policy. Worse, its effect looked suspiciously like sex discrimination. So, compounding the error, the Administration decided to formalize its accidental policy and apply it to men as well as women. Henceforth, the Administration announced, all candidates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Lessons Of Nannygate | 2/22/1993 | See Source »

Used an FBI plane to haul firewood from New York City to Washington. (Sessions acknowledges flying the wood, but says it was only four pieces of white birch that his wife needed for decorating their house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Under Fire at the FBI | 2/22/1993 | See Source »

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