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COME CLEAN! Trying to head off questions about his consultants' ethics, President Clinton is requiring his top outside advisers to detail how they made their money since they've been working with him. The move comes after a G.O.P. Congressman attempted to introduce legislation requiring such disclosure to determine if influential counselors were making money lobbying the government. The four consultants affected by the directive include campaign gurus James Carville and Paul Begala as well as pollster Stan Greenberg and Mandy Grunwald. They say they have nothing to hide...
...Secret Service will also provide a security detail because of Gore's visit. Security is expected to be tight...
...observation -- referring to a 1940 letter from Bernstein to fellow gay composer David Diamond, in which Bernstein claims he has forsaken sex for art, Burton notes, "There is something uncharacteristically hysterical about his self-pitying tone" -- but such analytical moments are lost in the flood of numbing chronological detail...
...declare it. Last year, according to recently released disclosure forms, the Clintons chose to hang on to picture frames from Tom Hanks (value: $530); silk neckties from Donna Karan ($255); and sneakers with CLINTON printed on the tongues, from an Arkansas shoe manufacturer ($525). The faux- Magritte-ish painting (detail left) Stewardship by Greg Mort ($1,200) was a gift of the artist and his wife that was presented to the Clintons by their real friends Tom and Cynthia Schneider after the President saw it at their Maryland home...
...INNOVATION, LAST WEEK SAW the launch of our new on-line service, TIME Daily. A supplement to the computer version of the magazine that we put out each Sunday night through America Online, TIME Daily highlights each weekday's top national and international stories, shaped with the same telling detail and knowing perspective as stories in the magazine. With AOL's interactive bulletin boards, TIME Daily enables us, as does TIME on Capitol Hill, to keep subscribers up to date while providing them with a way to make their voices heard on the issues that matter to them...