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Scrapbook Ann Lewis's Truth Squad James Stewart's new Whitewater book, Blood Sport, is a scurrilous attempt to blacken the reputation of the Clinton administration. Or at least it would be if it...
...You may remember Koppett, who used to be a sportswriter for the New York Times...
...A Sense of Where You Are, by John McPhee...
...The department's Office for Civil Rights has just released a report on Berkeley's admissions policy, which insists that Berkeley "does not maintain illegal quotas for black, Hispanic, and Filipino applicants...
...We don't want to help sell this book by creating controversy," she wrote, "but we do want to be prepared to answer allegations with facts...
...The "Bottom Line," Lewis asserts, is that Stewart, "an award winning journalist . . . found absolutely no evidence that the Clintons did anything wrong...
...Clinton has always [our emphasis] acknowledged that in the later years of the investment . . . she took over to make certain that the company complied with the law...
...Clinton described her Whitewater work in detail to RTC investigators" (Lewis's emphasis...
...No doubt Sen...
...With the NCAA Final Four imminent and the NBA playoffs following soon, don't say you will be too busy watching basketball games on TV to read...
...Quite a novel interpretation of recent events...
...Patron of Lost Causes The roller-coaster trajectory of this year's Republican presidential primary campaign left many pundits humbled and out of breath...
...It would take pages to fully explain this Orwellian system-if you have a copy of Dinesh D'Souza's Illiberal Education handy, read chapter 2-so suffice it to say that in order to live up to its motto, "Excellence Through Diversity," the university quite intentionally lowers its standards for students with the requisite melanin count, to the point that the gap between the average SAT scores for those admitted on the basis of "academic criteria" and those admitted for the sake of diversity is almost 300 points...
...Nonetheless, here's the Reading List's Final Four...
...As reader Alan Vanneman of Washington, D.C., alertly points out, "It was that damn hippie Percy Bysshe Shelley, not Robert Browning, who trashed Ozymandias...
...Chair-throwing misanthrope Bobby Knight really is a great coach, it turns out...
...Or at the very least a ticklish departure from Title VI of the Civil Rights Act...
...Clinton's description of her role in the Whitewater investment as passive (since she attended to its business affairs after 1988), the "truth" is that "Mrs...
...McPhee details Bradley's training schedule as a high-school kid...
...Lewis sent the memo to select Clinton boosters under the heading "To: All Concerned...
...Unlike the first lady, Stewart will not be flanked by a Secret Service detail to remove unwanted hecklers on his six-city book tour...
...The Essence of the Game Is Deception, by Leonard Koppett...
...The supply-side guru, Forbes adviser, and tireless disseminator of newsletters has concocted the most original interpretation thus far of the campaign...
...Some "erroneous allegations" are then ticked off under the he said/she said subheadings "Blood Sport" and "Truth...
...who decided to campaign for his man and then didn't because his man asked him not to...
...Not Jude Wanniski...
...The Reading List promises henceforth to confine his mischief to this page...
...He had the best grasp of pro basketball-the inner game, that is...
...In a fax dated March 15, Wanniski surveyed the political landscape and announced: "The biggest winner of all is Jack Kemp...
...Such is the gist of a March 14 memo by Hillary Rodham Clinton's attack dog Ann Lewis-not to be confused with Mrs...
...Perhaps the Clintons can find some new documents in the White House book room to help in this endeavor...
...A convenient, if depressing, symbiosis is taking root: Wanniski is becoming one of the few pundits in America who continue to take Kemp seriously...
...Clinton's attack dog emeritus, Susan Thomases, who originally approached Stewart with the expectation that he could be persuaded to write the definitive Whitewater acquittal...
...Yes, that Jack Kemp...
...Dole is listening intently...
...all of it inflated to gargantuan dimensions by the refusal of both Clintons to try the simple expedient of telling the truth...
...Or at least it would be if it contained any new and damning information...
...Show it to your lollygagging children...
...You'll learn Michael Jordan is impatient with mere mortals, Scotty Pippen is a mere mortal, and coach Phil Jackson understands the game at a higher level of consciousness than the rest of us...
...Which it doesn't...
...Which is perhaps what prompted a Washington Post reviewer to call Blood Sport "an endless tale of small-time venality, hypocrisy, conflicts of interest and impropriety...
...Hit the mute button on the remote control, and you can watch and read at the same time...
...The Jordan Rules, by Sam Smith...
...The Reading List The Reading List first must absolve Contributing Editor Robert Kagan of responsibility for the misattribution of an allusion to Ozymandias in the midst of his article "Remember Nicaragua...
...Not that they are concerned, mind you, it's just that "while Mr...
...Stewart uncovered nothing new on the Whitewater front, he does recycle some old allegations...
...Naturally, the chunk of spots reserved for "students of color" exists at the expense of other, more qualified kids who would get in were the admissions policy "open" (i.e., fair...
...Not according to the Clinton administration's Department of Education...
...This wouldn't be the same Jack Kemp who, in the space of a month, was going to endorse Forbes and then Dole and then Forbes and then didn't and then did, but only after his endorsement was of no practical use to the Forbes campaign...
...Chronicles a season of Indiana University hoops...
...The Weekly Standard's crack investigative team (Fred Barnes's fax machine) has obtained a copy of this confidential memo (thank you, whoever sent it...
...Excellence Through Dishonesty As everyone remotely familiar with higher education knows, the Berkeley campus is home to one of the most byzantine, impenetrable-and jealously guarded-affirmative action programs in the United States...
...All you want to know, locker-room tales included, about the last championship season of the Chicago Bulls...
...Sound like "reverse discrimination...
...It's a short but riveting account of what made Bradley great...
...Wanniski's reasoning is typically labyrinthine, but it should be noted that Kemp remains one of the few political figures in America who continue to take Wanniski seriously...
...It's true there's no first-person basketball book to rival Instant Replay by pro football's Jerry Kramer or Ball Four by baseball's Jim Bouton...
...A Season on the Brink, by John Feinstein...
...whose increasingly feckless behavior has left his many admirers scratching their heads in puzzlement...
...The report took seven years to produce, the last two of which allegedly involved sending department officials to method-acting classes, where they learned how to keep a straight face...
...last week...
...The great New Yorker writer on Bill Bradley when he starred at Princeton...
...Today," Wanniski writes, "[Kemp] is vice-presidential material, whether Dole likes that idea or not...
...Lewis helpfully included a schedule and locations of his upcoming stops...
...It seems that while Stewart challenges Mrs...
Vol. 1 • April 1996 • No. 28
