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...Keeping Up With the Joneses As the President continues skirmishing over the Lewinsky scandal, his lawyers turn their guns on Paula Jones. Their object: to get her suit thrown out of court. Special: Scandal In the Oval Office
...gauntlet has been thrown by Starr and the President, two icons of our democratic government. Monica is just a pawn in their game. Kenneth Starr has spent $40 million in taxpayer funds for his investigation. The President is complaining about running out of money for legal fees and says he needs a $3 million fund. But Monica Lewinsky and her parents face the total resources of the U.S. Government--never fewer than five attorneys, and four or five FBI agents working against her. The American public should know what it's like to be caught between two agencies of government...
When it's not thrown in mail center recycling bins, the J. Crew guide to undergraduate preppiedom can be found in student rooms--from the window sills of Winthrop to the futons of Pforzheimer. The Virginia-based clothier reports that about 10 percent of purchasers identify themselves as students...
...Seed, or someone like him, will open a cloning clinic, lawmakers are rushing to enact broad restrictions against human cloning. To date, 19 European nations have signed an anticloning treaty. The Clinton Administration backs a proposal that would impose a five-year moratorium. House majority leader Dick Armey has thrown his weight behind a bill that would ban human cloning permanently, and at least 18 states are contemplating legislative action of their own. "This is the right thing to do, at the right time, for the sake of human dignity," said Armey last week. "How can you put a statute...
...fact, Haakonsen cites nationalism as a reason for giving the Olympics the same salute he has thrown journalists, contest officials and all who encroach on snowboarding's outsider ethos. The young antihero dislikes the formatted judging system and just about everything ordained by the Olympics and is suspicious of its structure and its ability to deal with his evolving sport. Mount Baker, with its loose nature, he says, "is a way more organized and professional contest...