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Former Deputy Attorney General Webster Hubbell, a confidant of President Clinton and the highest-ranking casualty of the Whitewater investigation so far, was sentenced to 21 months in prison for bilking clientsat the law firm where he and Hillary Rodham Clintonwere partners.TIME's Suneel Ratannotes that Hubbell had asked for...
DIED. JEROME ZIPKIN, 80, social moth; in Manhattan. Loyal, insulting -- often to the same people -- Jerry Zipkin served for half a century as party guest, escort and confidant of socially prominent, financially comfortable women (Betsy Bloomingdale, Pat Buckley). In the '30s his friend Somerset Maugham modeled the snobbish Elliot Templeton...
Allister Sparks is South Africa's Walter Lippmann: knowing, patrician and a mite holier than thou. Like Lippmann, he is both chronicler and confidant of the alite. He was the editor of the Rand Daily Mail, a crusading antiapartheid newspaper, and wrote The Mind of South Africa, a tour-de...
DIED. LI ZHISUI, 75, Mao Zedong's former physician; in Chicago. He was Mao's loyal confidant from 1954 to the Chinese leader's death in '76-an experience Li recounted in his 682-page The Private Life of Chairman Mao. Propelled by Li's attend-and-tell tales of...
The Europeans have other papabili, among them Godfried Cardinal Danneels, 61, of Belgium. And then there is another prominent convert: Jean-Marie Lustiger, 68, the Archbishop of Paris. Lustiger was born a Jew, the son of Polish emigres to France (his mother would die in Auschwitz). Abandoning his original name...