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Even in the new millennium, Bill Clinton's past is coming back to haunt us. This week "A Vast Conspiracy," Jeffrey Toobin's account of the events leading to Clinton's impeachment, hits the stands. The tome blames a cadre of lawyers for attempting to seize control of the political system during the Clinton investigation. Included is a previously unreleased affidavit in which Paula Jones gives the President's measurements while describing his "distinguishing characteristic" in excruciating detail. Later she is asked to draw it for Clinton's lawyers. Recorded conversations reveal that investigators for Jones attempted to sway Juanita...
Harvard's 26-25 first-half lead was mainly due to its defense, which forced UNH into shooting only 32.1 percent from the floor. The Crimson also outrebounded the Wildcats 23-10, a vast improvement from its abysmal effort in its previous game against Northeastern...
...struggle. The fight against corruption could turn out to be the defining theme of a Putin presidency. The fact remains that his ascent to power has been facilitated by a group of political insiders and businessmen who have been publicly accused of corruption on a vast scale. If he hits out at minor corruption and closes his eyes to the big fish, he will do his reputation in the West incalculable damage. If he challenges the mega-corrupt, he will face the fight of his political life. After all, even a politician as experienced as Primakov was thwarted, then forced...
While we expand, we also contract. America Inc. has become a term for describing the unending mergers of vast companies--multibillion-dollar mergers, real money today. Oil companies, car companies, food companies, banks; everything comes together. Media companies become telephone companies. Telephone companies become software companies. Book-publishing companies are swallowed whole by companies that make music, movies and magazines. Nothing is wrong with these adhesions in principle, but some "products," like books, suffer. Not long ago, the large book publishers would take on a number of excellent but unprofitable manuscripts as a kind of intellectual duty, pro bono work...
Between adults and children there has always been a chasm (sentimental pretenses notwithstanding), which has of late become murderous. Child-interest groups regularly cite the vast numbers of the abused, neglected and homeless. White middle-class families blithely assume that the statistics apply to poor urban people of color. The fact is that sexual abuse in states like Iowa and Nebraska is the national average. Because of work patterns, parents of every economic status are spending much less time with their kids. Children also compete for one's money, time and resources. In a recent exhibition of children...