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...Gore's political alter ego, the smooth operator within Gore's tight-knit inner circle. His name turns up everywhere; he was even on Gore's 1989 trip to Taiwan that was led by overzealous fund raiser John Huang and included a stop at the headquarters of the Buddhist sect whose Southern California temple was host to Gore for his notorious "donor-maintenance" event in April...
...enough that a Senate committee last week reprised the most embarrassing moment of Gore's political career, bringing forward three shaven-headed Buddhist nuns, wrapped in nutmeg-colored robes and blanket immunity, to recount how they were badgered into laundering campaign money when the Vice President visited their temple. More ominous are new revelations about the dialing-for-dollars effort that Gore mounted from his White House office in 1995 and 1996, which may turn out to be the misstep that lands the entire mess in the hands of an independent counsel. This would be the fifth to find work...
...Buddhist episode might have amounted to little more than a temple in a teapot were it not for the latest questions being raised about Gore's fund-raising phone calls. Newly unearthed records show that what he described in March as "a few occasions" actually totaled 10 phone-athons during which he reached 46 contributors and tried dozens more. Gore insists he did nothing illegal--although he'll never do it again--and until last week the Justice Department agreed...
...examining the healing practices of Hindu, Buddhist, Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Chinese and tribal traditions, the class will examine how people understand the meaning and end of human life, the experience of suffering and the role of the healer; the class will question whether medicine or religion is the social guardian or morality...
...Senators ran into another dead-end Tuesday, in the shape of former DNC chairman Donald L. Fowler. Although Fowler knew at the time that the now-infamous Buddhist temple event was "in essence" a fund-raiser, he insists the Vice President did not share that wisdom. Fowler also claimed he couldn't recall asking the CIA to recommend White House access for the rich and very shady donor Roger Tamraz, who wanted to push a Mideast oil pipeline deal. "Memory is fallible," said the former Democratic chief...