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...semantic one. Some might argue that language is unimportant. At one level, it is, but on another, it shapes the way we think about the world. For Lewis, a semantic change doesn't seem to mean much. As he wrote in his three-and-a-quarter page memo to council President Robert M. Hyman '98-'97, "It will not work to the advantage of women to advance proposals that thoughtful people in this community will regard as trivilizing women's issues." By thoughtful people, Lewis means the few "well-placed women and men" with whom he spoke about the issue...
...that appointed Starr approve the move, out of concern that her separate Justice Department inquiry could "seriously interfere with the independent counsel's ongoing investigation." In 1993, Watkins told the General Accounting Office that an evaluation done by a private accounting firm evaluation inspired the firings. However, in a memo that appeared in January, Watkins claimed that it was Mrs. Clinton who demanded that the travel office staff be dismissed. He writes, we ... knew that there would be hell to pay if ... we failed" to remove the travel office employees "in conformity with the first lady's wishes." Counsel Starr...
...independent counsel Kenneth Starr; they are accused of fraud, conspiracy and making or causing to be made false statements to a financial institution. When Hillary Clinton testified before a grand jury last January, she made history: never before had a First Lady been summoned to do that. A memo that had been subpoenaed two years ago by independent counsel Robert Fiske was discovered in the files of a White House aide suggesting that contrary to her lawyers' statements, it was the First Lady who had ordered the firing of White House travel-office employees. Subpoenaed billing records from the Rose...
...April 1988, 1st Ozark again contacted Hillary about renewing the Whitewater loan. Efforts to reach the McDougals in California had failed, and the bank had waived the requirement that the McDougals submit a financial-disclosure form, noting in a memo that the loan was "guaranteed by Bill Clinton." But the bank set about getting the Clintons' form, as well as a financial statement for Whitewater itself. In a letter dated April 12, 1988, Wes Strange wrote Hillary, "I have also enclosed a renewal note, hoping that you could help me in getting all the signatures on this and returning...
...Landing in the bottom third of the class is something to which stigma perhaps rightly attaches," Jancu wrote in the student memo...