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Gigot and NewsHour co-panelist Tom Oliphant both agree that Clinton's "smash-mouth politics" have hardened Starr, and made him a rougher, hungrier prosecutor.
They lauded him for presenting a "picture" of (Gloria Borger on Face the Nation ) and a "window" on (Tom Oliphant on NewsHour and Juan Williams on Fox News Sunday ) standard-issue Washington corruption.
Attorney General Janet Reno's decision to appoint an independent counsel to investigate Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt is Issue 3. Amazing, say the pundits: Babbitt has "the finest reputation [for ethical conduct] of anyone in public life" (Oliphant); is "the last [Cabinet member] one would imagine getting in trouble" (Doyle McManus, Washington Week in Review ); and is "the most honest man in government" (an adoring Margaret Carlson, Capital Gang ). The oft-ironic pundits do not note that being the most honest man in Washington is like being the best-complexioned boy in the dermatologist's office.
Success in school physics was the key for getting into Cambridge, where he reveled in the world of Ernest Rutherford, Mark Oliphant, and John Bernal.
Early in 1944, Oliphant, then at Birmingham, left to work on the atomic bomb at Berkeley and took Wilkins along.