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...elections? Terrorists carried out coordinated bombings in Madrid on March 11, and the Spanish candidate challenging the Prime Minister in the March 14 election - the candidate whom terrorists surely preferred - won. Ask yourself which candidate al-Qaeda wishes to become the next U.S. President - and why. Phyllis M. Ramos Calumet, Michigan, U.S. Seeing G-O-D in DNA Only James Watson could turn the eulogy of a friend into an excuse to bolster his ego and denigrate religion [Aug. 9]. Francis Crick's "good-natured arrogance," as Watson called it, was nothing compared with Watson's opulent truculence, an attitude...
...year ago, after the FBI learned of Roger's attempts to influence the U.S. Parole Commission on behalf of heroin trafficker Rosario Gambino, the bureau wanted to run a sting on the President's half brother. The investigation petered out. Sources also say that J.T. Lundy, former head of Calumet Farms, which employed Roger following his release from prison in 1986, offered him stock in a Venezuelan coal deal in return for help with legal problems. (Lundy was convicted of bank fraud last year.) Records show that Roger deposited $100,000 in traveler's checks--some purchased in Venezuela...
...them was J.T. Lundy, former head of the famous Calumet Farms who was sentenced last year to 4 1/2 years in prison for bank fraud. Lundy had given Roger Clinton a job at his Kentucky race horse stud farm after Clinton served a prison term in the 1980s for dealing cocaine. By late 1999, Lundy began asking Clinton for help - even before his trial began. Sources told TIME he suggested Roger try to help delay legal action until the final days of the Clinton presidency, a time in which presidents usually grant pardons...
...baseball, it's the New York Yankees. In basketball, the Boston Celtics. In Thoroughbred racing, it's Calumet Farm. Since 1931 the Lexington, Ky., breeding farm and racing stable has produced two Triple Crown horses, nine Kentucky Derby champions and six Horse of the Year Eclipse Award winners...
...years of mismanagement buried the farm under $127 million of debt, and owner Bertha Wright, who inherited Calumet in 1982, filed for bankruptcy protection in July. Last week all 850 rolling acres of Kentucky bluegrass, 15 red-and-white barns, a 14-room mansion and assorted trophies and memorabilia went on the auction block. Polish-born horseman and aviation magnate Henryk de Kwiatkowski, 64, got the 770-acre main parcel with a $17 million bid. De Kwiatkowski, who also paid $210,000 for the Calumet name, announced that he would keep the farm's staff and operate it as before...