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Special counsel Robert Fiske announced the hiring of eight lawyers to assist him in the Whitewater investigation, including one who will focus on the events surrounding the suicide of deputy White House counsel Vincent Foster. Meanwhile Roger Altman, acting head of the Resolution Trust Corporation, which is looking into the failure of a savings and loan owned by the Clintons' Whitewater business partner, admitted that he had briefed senior White House officials on the matter in January. Republicans in Congress were quick to accuse the White House of trying to manipulate the investigation. Altman expressed regret over the briefing...
...Daniel Altman's column appears on alternate Mondays...
...Daniel Altman's column appears alternate Mondays...
Soon they might have that chance. This week Kramer is in Hollywood to begin work with Barbra Streisand on her long-deferred film of his AIDS play The Normal Heart. Robert Altman will direct the Angels in America film. The independent Propaganda Films is developing two projects: Good Days, a gay coming-of-age story from John Schlesinger (Midnight Cowboy, Sunday Bloody Sunday); and, with Oliver Stone and HBO, an adaptation of Conduct Unbecoming by Randy Shilts (And the Band Played On). "Nothing takes the taboo off of anything in Hollywood like box office," says Propaganda's boss Steve Golin...
...envision any wide-scale switch away from full-time workers," counters Altman, "and trying to game the system by making full-timers independent contractors won't work. If you get 80% of your income from a single source, you can't qualify as an independent contractor under IRS rules, so you'd be covered for health care by the employer mandate." Yes, says Senate Finance Committee chief of staff Lawrence O'Donnell, "the IRS forbids tax dodging of any kind -- but taxes are avoided just the same. The Administration thinks its health plan outfoxes every conniving operator out there...