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Christopher So was a key, if troubling, witness. A convicted embezzler and wife beater, he had to be dragged into the courthouse clad in slippers and shorts. Once there, though, he earned his keep, testifying that he had overheard Markhasev say, "I shot a n_____. It's big." In cross-examination public defender Henry Hall grilled So about his pending reward, asking if he understood he might become rich by cooperating. So answered, "That did cross my mind...
...ordered Larry Cockell and a number of other agents to appear in court at high noon, the President's body man isn't likely to sing the tune Starr wants to hear just yet. The reason? The Secret Service agent is now expected to claim that any conversations he overheard between the President and Bruce Lindsey are protected by attorney-client privilege. And that means the Justice Department is passing the baton back to the White House. "It will become strictly an attorney/client privilege fight now," says TIME legal correspondent Adam Cohen. That's why Starr wanted Cockell, a plainclothesman...
...enclave serves cappuccino, gazpacho and flan to black-clad clientele. The tres chic and bohemian alike ponder over Nabakov until one in the morning, long after Lamont has gone to bed. The quieter hours during the day are more conducive to studying, perhaps on the outside patio, but conversation overheard at Pamplona is always temptingly distracting...
...experiences with the "apathy bug," thankfully, have been less extreme. All of my sections have had interesting, thoughtful people in them, and I've had a few TFs whose efforts at rallying students to participate were outstanding. Yet I have overheard and participated in too many conversations about "my annoying core class" or "my section with 10-minute silences." (I hope this last remark is an exaggeration.) This intellectual apathy has probably led many people, at some point in their studies here, to ask themselves: Is this really Harvard...
...House common room was filled with people, sitting on the edge of their seats in front of the big cable TV. Everybody was slapping high-five when the team scored, booing for bad foul calls and chatting during commercials. During the Arkansas game, a fellow fan from Kirkland was overheard saying, "We just don't have this at Kirkland...Kirkland sucks...