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...prying out the Republicans two years from now. Failing that, they can hope that the Republicans mean it when they promise term limits that apply to themselves. In a town where everybody and everything seems to be moving, the upheaval adds up to even more business for real estate agent Cathie Gill. "Once people come to Washington, they tend to stay," she says. But for a while, it will be tough for a large bunch of Democrats to keep paying their mortgages...
...five years ago when borrowing was easy. Matsushita, meanwhile, is locked in a struggle with the American executives who run MCA -- the film studio it bought for $6.1 billion in 1990 -- over the Americans' demand for more authority and investment capital. Last week the company reportedly hired Hollywood agent Michael Ovitz and media dealmaker Herbert Allen to help make peace and to "re-evaluate" MCA's assets; one option would be to sell a stake in the company...
...operations remain big moneymakers.) Around the same time, Schulhof recruited Jeff Sagansky, the former president of CBS's entertainment division, to be his second in command. But observers wonder what role Sagansky has been playing as a long-term strategist. "He's a mystery to everyone," says a Hollywood agent. Though he may have helped save Sony Pictures, Schulhof may be too late to save his own job. "He has a grim future," comments one rival Hollywood studio chief. "He has publicly taken responsibility for Sony's condition, and he is the only human being mentioned in Sony's press...
Calling Stone an "agent provacateur for truth," Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz, the subject of Stone's film "Reversal of Fortune," introduced the filmmaker...
...aftermath of the shooting, Richard Griffin, the Secret Service agent in charge of presidential security, raised anew the idea of closing off that portion of Pennsylvania Avenue that runs in front of the White House in order to give agents easier control of sightseers. Protests came from all quarters, including Bill Clinton, who said, "I just don't think in a free society you can have the President of the country kind of hiding in the sand and just wall him off in the White House...