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...military wing of Hamas. According to him, the group was trying to prevent the anticipated full resumption of joint antiterror measures between the Israelis and the Palestinians. "This cooperation," notes Abu Assad, "is done at our expense." Then, in a boast that might be only bravado, the Hamas activist claimed, "We were about to assassinate Dennis Ross" on one of his previous peace shuttles. U.S. officials say there have been several threats against Ross, but no "near miss" attempts. Yet Abu Assad's unconfirmable declaration bespeaks a growing Palestinian discontent with the American mediation role...
...level job at the Commerce Department--one that his boss said he wasn't qualified for--and moved on, 18 months later, to the Democratic National Committee's finance office. How he engineered the moves has been a mystery--and remains one. Soon after Clinton's Inaugural, Democratic activist Maeley Tom, who worked as a Lippo consultant, wrote a letter pressing Administration officials to hire Huang, identifying him as the "top priority" of the Riadys and the "political power" who advises them on "where to make contributions." But the personnel official who made the hire claims to have done...
...opening statement, referring to "the existence of a Chinese plan to subvert our election process." And indeed the most intriguing revelation of the week was a letter showing that as far back as 1994, the Riady family, proprietors of the giant Lippo Group, was talking to a Chinese-American activist about introducing Asian businessmen to the Clinton Administration and using them to funnel money to the Democratic National Committee. There were also new revelations of wire transfers from banks in Asia to two of the D.N.C.'s most generous donors, Johnny Chung and Yogesh Gandhi. But the evidence meant...
These days, it seems better to refuse than to receive. LARRY KRAMER, bellicose playwright and activist, wanted to bequeath several million dollars to Yale for a tenured chair in gay and lesbian studies. Yale, which doesn't like to take instruction from benefactors, said "it was inappropriate to endow in perpetuity a professorship in an academic area yet to be well established or defined," and wanted to put his money elsewhere. Kramer opted out. "It has been a very distasteful experience," says the playwright. Meanwhile in St. Paul, Minn., artist LEROY NEIMAN withdrew an offer to donate $4.5 million worth...
...hard to imagine RICHARD GERE turning down the chance to work on Red Corner, a movie in which he gets to act and be an activist too. Gere, silvering up nicely at 47, plays a lawyer who finds himself accused of rape and murder while in China. If you're thinking of this as an opportunity for the longtime Tibetan activist to educate his fans on the peculiarities of the Chinese judicial system, you're on the right track. Director Jon Avnet says that several Chinese judges and lawyers put themselves at risk to be consultants on the movie...