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Sidelights.(Brief Article)
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign now offers the course "History 289: Oprah Winfrey, the Tycoon." * The U.S. Department of Education finds that about 40 percent of students pursuing a four-year degree have only marginal academic qualifications. ... Half of those enrolled in a four-year university will never graduate. * The United Church of Christ in Simi Valley, California, offers high-schoolers a weeklong sex education course called "Our Whole Lives." Students are taught how to use condoms and encouraged to create gay pride slogans and discuss their sexual fantasies. * Massachusetts now requires sushi served in restaurants to either have been frozen or cooked. * When Ronald Reagan turned 90 in February, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to officially recognize the former President's birthday: 209 Republicans, 199 Democrats, and 21 Independents (including a self-described socialist) voted for the measure. Seven Democrats expressed their disapproval by simply voting "present." * Stalinworld, modeled after a Soviet gulag, has opened in Lithuania. Visitors pay the equivalent of $1.25 to watch re-enactments of prisoners being abused, tour recreated barracks, and eat food such as gruel and fishhead soup. ... Marx Cafe,"a new urban restaurant with a leftist bent," opens in Washington, D.C. They offer "revolutionary fusion cuisine" created by a"Michelin rated chef" and a "stylish fully stocked bar complete with top shelf liquor, microbrews on tap, and fine wines" to "appease proletariats and cadres alike." * Bill Clinton made a record 133 trips abroad during his presidency. According to the National Taxpayers Union, that's more than Eisenhower, JFK, Johnson, and Nixon combined. The estimated cost of all this travel? As much as half a billion dollars. ... "A California cocaine smuggler wins a pardon from President Clinton by paying Hillary Clinton's brother $200,000" notes pundit Chris Matthews. "The next movie about international drug-dealing, perhaps called Traffic II, may well feature not a Mexican police chief but an American President as the bag man." * Two different groups of Girl Scouts were ticketed in DeKalb County, Georgia, for selling their famous cookies in parking lots without a county solicitor's permit.
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- David Watkins and Hillary Clinton.(Commentary)(Editorials)
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times February 16, 1996 700+ words
With the General Accounting Office's decision to refer...David Watkins about Hillary Clinton's role in the May...offered to the General Accounting Office during the agency...sent) that it was Hillary Clinton who wanted to get...
- Travel Office Memo Draws Probers' Ire; Ex-Aide Contradicts Hillary Clinton on...
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Susan Schmidt; Toni Locy January 5, 1996 700+ words
...May that year at Hillary Clinton's "insistence...s management. Hillary Clinton, in turn, sent...and the General Accounting Office. But the Watkins...surface so far, puts Hillary Clinton in the thick of...
- HILLARY CLINTON INSISTING SHE HAD NO ROLE IN FIRINGS.(News)
- Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) March 22, 1996 700+ words
...of the events surrounding the firings and her role in later investigations of the matter, including one by the General Accounting Office, Congress' investigative arm. Several months ago, a 1993 memo by former White House aide David Watkins surfaced, pointing...
- The Hillary Clinton Questions el 483
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post January 8, 1996 700+ words
...the next day may bring. Clearly, the first lady has some explaining to do. To recall, Mrs. Clinton told the General Accounting Office in April 1994 that she didn't know the origin of the decision to remove the travel office employees, that she had no...
- OH, WHAT A TANGLED WEB HILLARY CLINTON WEAVES!(PERSPECTIVE)
- Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) January 7, 1996 700+ words
...lives. He starkly contradicts the story of Mrs. Clinton, who had administration lawyer Neil Eggleston tell the General Accounting Office last year that ``Mrs. Clinton did not direct that any action be taken by anyone with regard to the Travel Office. Mrs...
- FLAP CAUSES COLUMNIST SAFIRE TO CALL HILLARY CLINTON `A LIAR' First lady's...
- Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel January 9, 1996 700+ words
...employees were dismissed "in conformity with the first lady's wishes." However, information the White House provided the General Accounting Office in 1994 says Clinton "had no role in the decision to terminate" the travel office workers.
- The long view.(Bill and Hillary Clinton)(Humor)
- Magazine article from: National Review Long, Rob July 12, 2004 700+ words
...You're on with Bill and Hillary Clinton! Hello!" CALLER: "Me...Well, I think ..." HILLARY CLINTON: "It's hard to...honey, you go first." HILLARY CLINTON: "No, you." BILL CLINTON...
- Hillary Clinton says she recalls little about billing First lady's lawyer...
- Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel June 18, 1996 700+ words
...actions and motives a "smear." Hillary Clinton did not directly answer questions...written by her attorney David Kendall, Hillary Clinton challenged the banker's "miraculous...telephone conversation. In tone, Hillary Clinton's response to the Republican-dominated...
Source: HighBeam Research, Sidelights.(Brief Article)