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For days Reno had been meeting privately with her top lawyers to figure out if she had grounds to appoint an independent counsel. The fact that everyone from editorial-page editors to Trent Lott to Common Cause reformers was hollering for one meant little to her. Reno's critics were...
With the exception of a few brave souls, the law- makers who would need to rewrite the laws have the greatest interest in preserving them. So whatever pleasure the Republicans felt in watching the White House thrashing was offset by fear that Senator Fred Thompson's investigation of campaign finance...
For a consumer-services giant, HFS has surprisingly little contact with real, live consumers. Its main strategy is to be a franchiser: providing a brand name and other services in return for royalties that its brands generate. With a notable exception, HFS avoids the headaches associated with running service companies...
Competition began driving up faculty salaries. Big-name professors not only drew top students but also improved a university's chances of winning harder-to-get federal research funds. (Competition for faculty can be fierce. Right now three professors at Penn's Wharton School are being aggressively recruited by other...
There were other problems, too, not the least of which was that opera lyrics--while lovely to listen to in flowing, euphonious Italian--invariably sound inane and affected when translated into English. This performance was no exception. The stage design was disappointingly stark and unimaginative, with hardly any props of...