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Contest honors best flush letters
The Associated Press
I CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Business student Scott
Caudill received a rejection letter from a computer
sanufacturer that really stung. It thanked him for an
aterview he never even had.
But it wasn’t a big enough gaffe to win the second
Mual “Ugly Rejection Letter Contest.”
That dubious honor went to a letter received by se
ar Tom Maguire from a financial services firm. The
ar said he wouldn’t be hired, but “We hope you
a consider referring others to us as applicants for
Jiployment or as clients.”
The University of Virginia’s Mclntire School of
Commerce’s contest helps ease the tension that is par
ticular to this time of year.
“The idea of the whole thing is to say, ‘You’re not
alone,’ ” Maguire said.
The contest, which ran throughout the spring, re
ceived letters with grammatical errors, misspellings,
gender confusion and nonsense.
A panel of judges sorted through the “don’t call
us” mail.
In the spirit of the season and the job market, a
university hangout offered a free drink for every five
rejection letters presented by a student.
Ron Morse, owner of the Greenskeeper, estimated
more than 400 students packed the restaurant for the
April 20 promotion.
One student came armed with 80 rejection letters.
Clinton hires help to polish tarnished image
^The Associated Press
; WASHINGTON — If Ronald
Reagan was the Teflon president be
cause nothing stuck to him, Bill
Clinton is the Velcro president:
Doubts from his past cling like
iburrs.
‘ Clinton is adept at shaking them
off, but they have a habit of return-
h
i Now he is hiring a personal
jlawyer to deal with pre-presidential
allegations — a step suggesting just
low disruptive the character ques-
Inhas become to his presidency.
< Robert Bennett, one of Washing
ton's best-known white collar crim
inal lawyers, is being brought in.
; White House counsel Lloyd Cutler
said he had spoken with Bennett
about the possibility of him help
ing” if Paula Jones, a former
|Arkansas state employee, files suit
against Clinton.
; Jones is said to be contemplating
legal action; she asserted at a Feb. 11
news conference here that in 1991,
when Clinton was governor, he
summoned her to a hotel room and
made sexual advances toward her.
There was a time when election
to the presidency granted political
rebirth. New presidents were ab
solved of past sins.
For example, Herblock, the
Washington Post cartoonist, always
had portrayed Richard Nixon as a
heavy-bearded habitue of the sew
ers. But once Nixon was elected
president in 1968, Flerblock gave
him a shave.
No one has given Clinton a
clean shave. During his campaign
he had to deal with a barrage of
questions about his personal life
and behavior. He carried an
Arkansas sobriquet, “Slick Willie.”
As a result, he came into office
without having established the
moral authority Americans tradi
tionally give their presidents, says
Suzanne Garment, resident scholar
at the American Enterprise Insti-
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Politics.”
“He belongs to the group of
’60s kids that didn’t want to go
fight in Vietnam and that first used
marijuana as a kind of cultural
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