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WASHINGTON: Vernon Jordan has been spared his day before the grand jury Thursday, bumped by fellow Clinton confidant Bruce Lindsey and a legal tussle over executive privilege. But Jordan, the Washington power broker, is back in the media spotlight ? and faces a growing pile of evidence that he was far more wrapped up in the Monica Lewinsky affair than he has previously admitted...
...wouldn't help for the rejected buyer to prove again that he can easily afford the monthly maintenance each resident pays to cover expenses like doormen's salaries and interest on the building's mortgage. Speaking of a building whose apartments carry a monthly maintenance of $12,000, one broker interviewed by Ms. Yazigi said, "Look, anyone can afford the maintenance. It's not about that...
Yevgeni Primakov was in high spirits as he pulled a chair up to a horseshoe-shaped table in Geneva's Palace of Nations. Seven years earlier, the Russian Foreign Minister had been hunkered down in a Baghdad bunker with American bombs falling around him after he failed to broker a deal to head off the Gulf War. Now, with two U.S. carrier battle groups and 300 warplanes poised in the Persian Gulf for another major strike against Iraq, the pressure was on Primakov once more. But this time he was sure he could keep the guns silent. "I think...
Capano, 48, a once prominent attorney and power broker in the insular world of Delaware politics, was arrested last week in Wilmington and charged with first-degree murder, capping a 17-month investigation into the disappearance of Anne Marie Fahey, 30, the scheduling secretary for Governor Thomas Carper. Investigators have long asserted that Capano, the last to see Fahey when they dined together on June 27, 1996, killed her in a rage when she tried to end their secret three-year affair. But it was not until last week, when Capano's younger brothers Louis and Gerard provided new information...
...some fashion by asking them to try to change Saddam's mind. Clinton planned to speak on the phone over the weekend with both Boris Yeltsin and Jacques Chirac; Russian Foreign Minister Yevgeni Primakov, who has been in frequent contact with Iraqi leaders, would like to play peace broker. If Clinton asked him to fly to Baghdad, he would happily do so. But Clinton isn't optimistic about diplomacy's chances, and there is no sign that either France or Russia is willing to budge on the issue of using force...