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...Attorney Mary Jo White is furious at Clinton for several New York cases. In 1993 and '94, Harvey Weinig, 53, helped launder at least $19 million for the Cali drug cartel. Justice strongly opposed his petition, but Clinton commuted Weinig's 11-year sentence--cutting it in half--and now he is scheduled to be set free. Last week White released documents showing Weinig was also involved in a kidnapping plot. Former White House aide David Dreyer, a relative of Weinig's, told TIME he asked Clinton chief of staff John Podesta and former White House counsel Beth Nolan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Would You Pardon Them? | 2/26/2001 | See Source »

...disagree in peace or even a commitment to look for areas of shared belief. Ecumenism celebrates religious belief in the abstract. And that is the puzzle. Why is erroneous belief preferred over nonbelief? Spiritual brotherhood can start to look more like a conspiracy in restraint of trade. The religion cartel. We band together and solemnly agree not to poach one another's customers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Don't Want to Convert? Just Say No | 2/19/2001 | See Source »

...Marc Rich ignited the firestorm - but inside the Justice Department, career prosecutors are also burning over the clemency grant for Manhattan lawyer Harvey Weinig, sentenced in 1996 to 11 years in prison for facilitating an extortion-kidnapping scheme and helping launder at least $19 million for the Cali cocaine cartel. In Weinig's case, Clinton didn't bypass the Department of Justice - he defied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bill, How Low Can You Go? | 2/17/2001 | See Source »

...crisis is also part of a nationwide winter of energy discontent in which natural-gas rates have soared to their highest level in 15 years, and that ever lovable cartel, OPEC, has slashed its oil output again to keep prices up. California's woes are testing everyone from Governor Gray Davis, a moderate Democrat seen as presidential timber, to George W. Bush, who last week stiffed Davis' request for federal aid to the staggering utilities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Energy Crunch | 1/29/2001 | See Source »

...order that power and gas companies across the country transfer their excess capacity to the Golden State. But diplomacy may be the most effective arrow in Bush's quiver. He plans to place energy on the national-security agenda and lobby OPEC to pump more oil. Although the cartel last week announced production cuts, which pushed prices higher, some key members, such as Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, remain grateful to Bush's father for winning the Gulf War. Will they help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The View From Washington: Bush's Energy (Oil) Policy | 1/29/2001 | See Source »

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