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Kidd, whose main background was in banking, was the candidate deemed least qualified by student members of the committee. The students were outraged by the selection and charged that their input was completely disregarded...
When Democrat Michael Coles announced for Congress against Newt Gingrich, the audience was filled with friends, supporters and a hostile, blue-furred Cookie Monster. The costume, worn by a Gingrich backer, was a dig at Coles' background. He is the self-made multimillionaire founder of the 400-store Great American Cookie Co. But the fact that Newt supporters not only showed up to heckle Coles but actually dressed for the occasion may indicate something else--anxiety that come November this spend-whatever-it-takes cookie tycoon could gobble up their...
...addition, the ruling could be seen as an indication of a societal and judicial movement away from affirmative action--especially when plotted against the background of other such cases, such as the recent lawsuit brought and won by a white student not admitted to a Boston high school...
...investigation, says TIME's Jay Carney. In addition, Starr, Reno's original choice for the job, seems to be the most logical choice, because it was his Travelgate inquiry which brought the mishandling of confidential FBI files to light. Starr's discovery that the White House had requested a background materials on fired travel office chief Billy Dale led to the revelation that 407 files, some of them profiles of such prominent Republicans as House Majority Leader Dick Armey and former Secretary of State James Baker, had also been reviewed. Though the FBI file probe will just be one facet...
...investigation, says TIME's Jay Carney. In addition, Starr, Reno's original choice for the job, seems to be the most logical choice, because it was his Travelgate inquiry which brought the mishandling of confidential FBI files to light. Starr's discovery that the White House had requested a background materials on fired travel office chief Billy Dale led to the revelation that 407 files, some of them profiles of such prominent Republicans as House Majority Leader Dick Armey and former Secretary of State James Baker, had also been reviewed. Though the FBI file probe will just be one facet...