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WASHINGTON, D.C.: Janet Reno held her ground before the Senate Judiciary Committee, defending her decision not to appoint a special counsel to investigate White House campaign financing irregularities, but the ground is slipping. "Let me be absolutely clear: I am not going to violate my oath in this matter because of pressure from any quarter, not from the media, not from Congress, nor from anywhere else," Reno declared. "To do so would be wrong, and I will have no part in it." Reno steadfastly maintained that she would not launch an independent investigation because she does not believe that...
Janet Reno can read the letter of the law. The question is whether she is missing the larger story. Last week, for the fourth time, the Attorney General decided not to appoint a special prosecutor to look into Democratic campaign fund raising. Relying on the advice of Justice Department lawyers who are conducting their own probe, she pointed to the language of the independent-counsel law. It requires "specific, credible evidence" of a crime by high-ranking federal officials. If the department inquiry turns up a smoking gun, she says, she'll pull the trigger on an investigation...
...minority representation in the ranks of associate and assistant professors is currently 15 percent and exceeds the 13 percent "availability" rate. The availability rate is based on the percentage of new minority Ph.D. recipients in the fields in which the FAS seeks to appoint new faculty members...
...Dean is selected by the President, the President will appoint an advisory committee of school of public health faculty," Ware said. "He will work with that committee...[to] take a broad look across the country to look at candidates...
...five-member search committee--composed of Faculty members from the history, government and Near Eastern languages and civilizations departments--is said to be split over both who to appoint as well as the academic validity of a so-called Holocaust chair itself...