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The papers quote presidential sources as saying that if Clinton makes any sort of post-testimony public statement, it will come from his private quarters in the White House, not the Oval Office.
When, in 1998, LSC announced its intent to launch an initiative that would require massive restructuring of the national legal services delivery system, the announcement was also quite frightening and was not greeted, in many quarters, with open arms.
The first meeting concerned the first lady's activities immediately following associate White House counsel Vincent Foster's suicide ; the second had to do with her testimony before a grand jury investigating the billing records from her Arkansas law firm . The records had been missing for two years before inexplicably reappearing in the first family's private quarters.
But in 1932, Max Kleiber, an animal physiologist working at the University of California's agricultural station in Davis, re-examined the question, and found that, for mammals and birds, metabolic rate was mass 0.73 —closer to three quarters than two thirds.
And having seen one of the famous public schools at rather too close quarters back when I was 14, during your sabbatical year in London, I think that if I were British, I'd be more likely to approach those charming and inessential aspects of British society with a box of explosives than with the Spectator 's pious reverence (and on the Speccie in particular, you'll remember Ian Buruma's devastating account of the place in his book Anglomania ).
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