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...next year, as the College's Ann Radcliffe Trust begins to fund women's interest groups on campus, a representative from the Seneca will sit alongside an RUS delegate, helping to decide what groups will get funding, even though the Seneca is not an officially recognized student group...
...group, after all, requires potential members to write essays as part of an open application process. And once accepted, members pay $250 per semester in dues--though a financial aid program is available...
...mistrust of the Clinton White House. The Lewinsky scandal followed years of Executive Branch stonewalling in several other investigations. Some of it, Starr's team believed, was criminal. Prosecutors closed their Whitewater grand jury inquiry in 1998, Schmidt and Weisskopf report, convinced that Hillary Clinton had lied to investigators, though they lacked sufficient evidence to indict her. Later, as the Lewinsky scandal progressed, the stonewalling included the Secret Service's "protective function privilege," a fanciful legal gambit designed by Justice Department lawyers to prevent agents from testifying. Starr had reason to believe that this was undertaken on Clinton's specific...
...leading G.O.P. contender for the state's open Senate seat, says Nebraskans think partial-birth abortion is "barbaric." And in most polls on the issue, a majority of Americans say they would favor making it illegal. Congress has marched in step, passing partial-birth bans by overwhelming margins, though not quite enough to override President Clinton's vetoes. But abortion-rights supporters say a better measure of public opinion is the vote in the three states where the issue has been on the ballot and voters have become more informed. In all three--Colorado, Washington and Maine--partial-birth bans...
...Border Patrol on the prowl. The Chinese were lucky that night. A minivan with darkened windows was waiting for them, with a Chinese driver. The snakeheads' far-flung networks had delivered. The driver drove them through the night to a large city, which Chen discovered was Houston, though he had only the vaguest idea of U.S. geography. All he had was the telephone number of a distant cousin in someplace called Flushing...