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After a detailed review of this unwieldy beast, the Faculty decided last year that the Core Curriculum is here to stay--at least for a while. Based on the reforms--the addition of a quantitative reasoning requirement and certain departmental bypasses that we haven't yet seen--it seems clear that the extent of the problem was not properly assessed. In all likelihood, the formidable bureaucracy of the Core will crumble under the force of its own weight eventually and yield to the sensible solution of distribution requirements inspired by the philosophy of the Core. In the mean-time...
...friends who egged him on but also the ones who helped him sidestep accusations. During the '92 campaign, aide Betsey Wright used to fend off "bimbo eruptions," charges about women from his Arkansas days. Senior adviser Bruce Lindsey used to advise flight attendants on the campaign plane to stay out of range of news cameras when Clinton disembarked. If the claims about Lewinsky are true, then what Clinton needed around him was more Evelyn Liebermans and fewer back-slapping buddies and loyal members of his cleanup crew. If it takes a village to raise a child, maybe it takes...
Most career civil servants like Tripp, especially those trusted enough to work in the White House, are ferociously competent and unrelentingly discreet. They often stay for decades, and they keep their mouth shut. Tripp was different. She was seen as a schoolmarm, a bit obsessed with improprieties she saw around her. She once turned in an Army reservist for "petty wrongdoing," according to the Washington Post, and consequently got the man fired...
Beene has managed to stay in business through the support of intensely devoted clients who care little about looking like someone else. Journalist Amy Fine Collins, Beene's muse, has worn his clothes exclusively for the past 10 years because the design is "so strong, so graphic, so precise." Beene dresses women of means but not, as he puts it, "the bonbon and Pekingese type...
...hours left before the born-again killer's 7pm EST lethal injection, the Supreme Court turned down her appeal against the Texan clemency system. Will Bush, a contender for the GOP presidential nomination, step in at the last minute? Unlikely: All he has to offer is a 30-day stay of execution, an option his administration has already recommended against. No political gain is seen in merely prolonging her suffering...