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...Lewinsky affair it had been hard to do as long as Gingrich stayed behind the curtain, venturing forth only to make high-minded statements about the need for civility at a moment of this historic magnitude. But on Wednesday he went before the microphones--without Judiciary committee chairman Henry Hyde--and trampled all over the idea of a censure deal that would pre-empt impeachment proceedings. He also ruminated in a closed-door meeting about expanding the hearings to include Clinton's campaign-finance abuses, the Administration's transfer of satellite technology to China, and the many other scandals known...
...Moreover, they enjoyed that federal backing while throwing the money at Long Term Capital that enabled it to pursue its exotic--and, for three years, very profitable--speculations. "Why should the weight of the Federal Government be brought to bear to help out a private investor?" demanded former Fed Chairman Paul Volcker. "It's not a bank...
...helped make Salomon Brothers the top bond house of the 1980s, as recounted in the best seller Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis. The partners, who worked out of waterfront offices in tony Greenwich, Conn., included Nobel-prizewinning economists Myron Scholes and Robert Merton and former Fed Vice Chairman David Mullins. As their price for the bailout, the creditors acquired a 90% stake in the fund, which effectively removed Meriwether and his partners from power. But huge management fees that the partners have collected could still leave some ahead of the game by tens of millions of dollars...
...term runs out. Far more important, for at least some committee members, is discovering whether this is the final dump. Does Starr plan to send over any more material -- on Whitewater, Filegate or Travelgate, for instance? Such a seemingly simple question is what the bipartisan band of four want chairman Henry Hyde to ask the independent counsel. But given Starr's penchant for meticulously collecting mountains of data, the committee should be careful what it wishes...
...Congress -- even though the Dems lost a vital vote on this issue Friday. What's more, Hyde wants ranking Democrat John Conyers to have equal say in calling witnesses to an impeachment inquiry. The criticism that he was no Peter Rodino seems to have struck the silver-haired chairman Hyde harder than we knew...