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Early in 1944, Oliphant, then at Birmingham, left to work on the atomic bomb at Berkeley and took Wilkins along.
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.
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.
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.