History professor testifies for Clinton
From the New York Times, December 9,
1998
The White House opened its formal defense of
President Clinton Tuesday, addressing in greater
detail than before the facts and issues of the
impeachment case against Clinton.
Clinton's lawyers and three
panels of anti-impeachment witnesses conducted a
grueling day-into-night tutorial for the 37-member
committee on why Clinton should not be removed from
office for his admitted misconduct in the Monica
Lewinsky affair.
The morning session before the
committee included scholars from Harvard, Princeton
and Yale who had previously expressed opposition to
impeachment, as well as Nicholas deB. Katzenbach
['43], who served as Attorney General under
President Lyndon B. Johnson.
Sean Wilentz, professor of
American history at Princeton, angered several
Republican members of the committee by warning them
that what he characterized as an unjustified vote
to impeach Clinton would bring them the opprobrium
of history. [>>more]
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Traditional Jewish texts and reference books in the
Bet Midrash
Words of the one, words of the other
It's 7:45 a.m., and all the chairs are taken.
Around the table are professors of chemistry,
economics, philosophy, physics; an editor; a
business manager; an administrative assistant; and
a rabbi.
"'Over and above all, there is
the question of 'opening,' of life and meaning,'"
says the rabbi, reading from The Burnt Book,
by Marc-Alain Ouaknin. "'It is a somewhat political
question, since it is the place where liberty takes
root and it provides the most striking expression
of the refusal of closure. The Talmud is the
'anti-ideological' discourse par excellence.'"
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Graduate student in Atmospheric, Oceanic Sciences
is also a professional ocarina player
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sound "much like a baroque flute"
Giulio Boccaletti, first year graduate student
in the Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences,
plays the ocarina professionally. He performs both
as a soloist and as a member of the Gruppo
Ocarinistico Budriese, which is based in his native
Budrio, Italy.
The ocarina is a flute-like
instrument made of clay and shaped something like a
sweet potato. [>>more]
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