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...heterocentric litigation, meanwhile, the Navy withdrew all charges against a pilot in one of the 120 sexual-harassment cases stemming from the infamous Tailhook Association convention two years ago. Prosecutors abandoned the case against Lieut. Cole Cowden after determining there wasn't sufficient evidence to go to court. The Navy has now dropped half of the Tailhook cases...
...competing approaches to stay loose. Their hunch was right: though she traveled widely to keep her husband's promise of reform alive while he was distracted with the budget, she kept her distance from the day-to-day decision making. After her father had a stroke in March, she withdrew from the task force for a month...
Freeh was not the first person the President considered, nor is he a member of the President's circle of friends. But after Clinton's original choice, Massachusetts State Judge Richard Stearns, an old Oxford buddy, withdrew from contention, Freeh came so highly recommended to the White House that no one else was ever seriously considered...
...influence sagged and membership dragged. The leadership spent almost as much energy beating down internal feuds as battling the Reagan and Bush administrations' attempts to turn back the clock on civil rights. Even the yearlong search for Hooks' replacement came close to a meltdown when Jesse Jackson abruptly withdrew his name from consideration just before the 64- member board of directors met to make its decision...
...through in life." When Harriman wants to be alone to think things out, she either climbs a hill or gets on a horse. She is guarded about her image. She initially agreed to write her memoirs with former TIME correspondent Christopher Ogden, then abruptly withdrew from the project. Ogden is proceeding with an unauthorized biography, as is another writer, Sally Bedell Smith...