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...After that deposition, the committee faces the spectacle of more hearings to justify its hearings. Chairman Henry Hyde has scheduled a "perjury day" late next week -- when everyone from military officials to federal judges will appear to tell us what a horrible crime lying before the court is. Expect some real emotional moments as reformed felons relate stories of the day they told less than the whole truth. "Convicted perjurers may have personal experiences they want to relate," said GOP committee spokeswoman Michelle Morgan. Very interesting, to be sure -- but how useful will it be in this highly partisan environment...
...scrapped now. But however much work the ISS eventually does, the lessons it yields will probably be less scientific than bureaucratic--lessons about how, and how not, to get a project like this done. "Most of the functions of the space station have disappeared," says Alex Roland, chairman of the department of history at Duke University and a former NASA historian. "NASA is mortgaging its future for the next 20 years...
...Combined increase in the value of the stock owned by the CEO of Travelers and the chairman of Citicorp, after the announcement that the companies were merging...
Most of the Nation's 31 Republican Governors will meet in New Orleans this week to chew over the election results, install Oklahoma's Frank Keating as their new leader and discuss a possible coup. The target is JIM NICHOLSON, the G.O.P. party chairman who many Republicans say shares the blame for making a hash of the recent elections and for being, looking and sounding too conservative in general. Several of the Governors, including Michigan's JOHN ENGLER, have said in public that it's time for Nicholson to pack his bags. Following the model used by the Democrats...
This knack for covering all political bases carries all the way to the top of the Fanjul empire. Alfonso Fanjul served as co-chairman of Bill Clinton's Florida campaign in 1992. His brother Pepe was national vice chairman of finance for Bob Dole's presidential campaign in 1996 and was host to a $1,000-a-head fund raiser for Dole at his Palm Beach mansion. After Clinton's 1992 victory, Alfie was a member of the select group invited by the Clinton camp to attend the President-elect's "economic summit" in Little Rock...