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...Which was a vain hope, for what emerged was one of the most gratuitous cases of selective tape editing since Watergate. Example: Burton's orginal transcript quotes Hubbell as saying "We have to be very careful about this... editorials are all talking about how this is designed to keep me and Susan quiet. We have to make sure that it's our personal friends that are helping." That turns out to be a composite of words from a larger statement, from which the following was deleted by Burton: "Most of the articles are presupposing that I, my silence is being...
...Even more egregious: Where Hubbell says the word "reality", Burton substitutes "Riady." A Freudian slip, no doubt. Burton's explanation? "When you've got 150 hours of tape and you've got to condense it down to an hour," he told reporters, "obviously you're going to do some things that some people are concerned about." Whether that will quell the demands for his resignation from the chairmanship remains to be seen...
...letting all the contents out. Hubbell and his attorney are upset that every minute of his private conversations -- genuinely personal moments included -- are about to enter the public domain. The ranking Democrat on Burton's committee, Henry Waxman, called for an inquiry into why his chairman "unilaterally subpoenaed these tapes, unilaterally released them and apparently unilaterally altered the content." Moral: Leaking snippets of tape can create a tangled web, as the Clintons already know...
...dances. But the proliferation of those posters has been the subject of ongoing debate between student groups eager to promote their events and some students and administrators concerned about preserving the beauty of the campus. Groundspeople were hard at work last week with fire hoses blasting away the masking tape that had glued old posters to the pavement outside the Science Center, and Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III was spotted personally removing posters from various "illegal" posting sites around the campus...
There's no doubt that the postering on the walkways of the Yard has gotten out of control; the posters are quickly ruined by the foot traffic, left in tattered strips of paper and tape. But the answer should not be a crackdown on student group postering but rather an effort to provide more plentiful and useful locations for that postering...