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hot documentHot Document Primary sources exposed and explained.12136967hotdocumentfalsefalsespacernotembeddedhot documentLike Daughter, Like Father Like Daughter, Like Father Excerpts from Elizabeth Cheney's 1988 senior thesis.Chris Wilson0Excerpts from Elizabeth Cheney's 1988 senior thesis on presidential war powers.Last week, Slate published an analysis of Elizabeth Cheney's senior thesis from Colorado College, which author Zac Frank discovered in a bin of discarded books at the college's library. Frank found Cheney's 125-page treatise on presidential war powers to be eerily similar to the philosophy of the unitary executive that her father would expound years later as vice president.nonotruenonotochyperlinkno200933012837PMMondayMarMarch133/30/2009 5:28:37 PM633740165170000000200933012837PMMondayMarMarch133/30/2009 5:28:37 PM633740165170000000hot documentLike Daughter, Like Father Excerpts from Elizabeth Cheney's 1988 senior thesis on presidential war powers.noLike Daughter, Like Father Excerpts from Elizabeth Cheney's 1988 senior thesis.noLast week, Slate published an analysis of Elizabeth Cheney's senior thesis from Colorado College, which author Zac Frank discovered in a bin of discarded books at the college's library. Frank found Cheney's 125-page treatise on presidential war powers to be eerily similar to the philosophy of the unitary executive that her father would expound years later as vice president.truenotochyperlinkno20092255458PMMondayFebFebruary172/2/2009 10:54:58 PM63369194098000000020092255458PMMondayFebFebruary172/2/2009 10:54:58 PM633691940980000000hot documentMadoff 'n' JeffMadoff 'n' JeffBernie Madoff and his accountant: an unlikely pair.Bonnie Goldstein0Bernie Madoff and his accountant made the oddest of couples.Bernie Madoff, a much-respected Wall Street investment adviser and former NASDAQ chairman, was arrested last week after he confessed to the Federal Bureau of Investigation that he'd committed securities fraud. Madoff told the FBI that his 50-year-old company, Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC, had been running a "giant Ponzi scheme" for years and that there was "no innocent explanation." The company has been placed in receivership.nonotruenonotochyperlinkno2008121753456PMWednesdayDecDecember1712/17/2008 10:34:56 PM6336513209600000002008121753456PMWednesdayDecDecember1712/17/2008 10:34:56 PM633651320960000000hot documentA Hold on Holder?A Hold on Holder?Senators squabble over how soon to hold the confirmation hearing for Obama's attorney-general nominee.Bonnie Goldstein0Senators squabble over how soon to hold the confirmation hearing for Obama's attorney-general nominee.Senate judiciary committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., scheduled a confirmation hearing for Eric Holder, President-elect Obama's choice for attorney general, on Jan. 8. The committee's ranking Republican, Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., says that's too soon. On Dec. 10, Specter urged that the hearing be put off until Jan. 26, citing a need to investigate Holder's role (while serving as President Clinton's deputy attorney general) in the 2001 pardon of Marc Rich and the "alleged—and I emphasize alleged—illegal fundraising by Vice President Albert Gore out of the White House" in 1996. Judging from this document request by Specter and other Republican committee members—see below and the following page—Specter would also like to grill Holder about Clinton-era foreign donations to the Democratic Party; the granting of clemency in 1999 to jailed Puerto Rican nationalists; the 2000 Border Patrol raid in which Elian Gonzales was seized from his Miami relatives so he could be returned to his father in Cuba; the 1993 confrontation in Waco, Texas, between the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Branch Davidian sect; and the independent-counsel investigation of and subsequent impeachment proceedings against President Clinton.nonotruenonotochyperlinkno2008121533128PMMondayDecDecember1512/15/2008 8:31:28 PM6336495188800000002008121533128PMMondayDecDecember1512/15/2008 8:31:28 PM633649518880000000hot documentLayoff SpinLayoff SpinA PR guide to laying off employees.Bonnie Goldstein0An ad firm accidentally leaks its "restructuring communications plan."Last month more than half a million American workers lost their jobs. How exactly do you tell an employee that his or her services are no longer needed? Institutional guidelines at two University of California campuses (see here and here) recommend "constant, open, and empathic communication." Somewhat less sentimentally, the Fairport, N.Y.-based H.R. Works Inc. advises: "Protect company assets," taking the precaution, for instance, to shut down the laid-off employee's computer and network access not after but "during the termination meeting." The state of Minnesota's instructions warn managers to be prepared for the worst: "If you are concerned that the employee may react to the news in a hostile or threatening manner, be sure to have a safety plan in place. This should include notice to Capitol Security." In the self-published Employee Termination Guidebook ($247.00 + shipping), "turnaround" consultant Kevin Muir urges managers to move quickly before the doomed employee starts "telling lies about you, turning others against you and destroying your reputation."nonotruenonotochyperlinkno200812825035PMMondayDecDecember1412/8/2008 7:50:35 PM633643446350000000200812825035PMMondayDecDecember1412/8/2008 7:50:35 PM633643446350000000200632824825PMTuesdayMarMarch143/28/2006 6:48:25 PM632791541050000000200642165024PMFridayAprApril184/21/2006 10:50:24 PM632812422240000000truetruetruetruetruetruetrue200622451634PMFridayFebFebruary172/24/2006 10:16:34 PM632763981940000000200622451634PMFridayFebFebruary172/24/2006 10:16:34 PM632763981940000000