Word: dustup
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BOSTON: Just in time for a White House plagued with scandals, a mini-dustup appeared Wednesday around the Dole camp. After Simon Fireman, a former vice chairman of Bob Dole's presidential campaign finance committee, agreed to pay $1 million in fines for making illegal contributions to the Dole campaign, the Clinton campaign jumped on the opportunity to attach the words criminal and illegal to Dole. "He needs to give the details of his relationship with Mr. Fireman and what he knew about this illegal scheme," said campaign spokesman Joe Lockhart. Fireman acknowledged making illegal contributions to the Dole campaign...
Last week's dustup over the personal finance column James J. Cramer writes for SmartMoney magazine is one of those "scandals" only a journalist could love: incredibly easy to toss off allegations of "conflict of interest" yet incredibly difficult to define concretely what, exactly, the conflict is. At the heart of it, though, lies the ludicrous notion that only journalists are pure enough to offer financial advice untainted by "conflict." Woe unto...
...forget that child-custody battle between Mia Farrow and Woody Allen. But the Fox network will dredge it all up again next week in Love and Betrayal: The Mia Farrow Story, a two-part, four-hour rehash of Farrow's career and marriages and, of course, her nasty dustup with Allen. PATSY KENSIT (Lethal Weapon 2), as Mia, and DENNIS BOUTSIKARIS (Boys on the Side), as Woody, at least look the parts. Boutsikaris says he was "panicked" at the prospect of portraying a living person but finally decided, "If you think you can play Woody Allen...
...Gingrich Revolution. At 42, the youngest committee chairman on Capitol Hill embodies both the brashness and the energy of the new generation of conservatives. Kasich may be the only Congressman ever evicted from the stage at a Grateful Dead concert. (A misunderstanding, he says of the 1991 dustup at Washington's R.F.K. Stadium: he had been invited onstage by his friend, country star Dwight Yoakam, the Dead's warm-up act.) He has also been known to break up the monotony of long flights by unfolding his six-foot frame in the aisle and doing push...
Whatever the outcome, the dustup is accomplishing one thing: getting the public interested. Clinton had previously signed up all five ex-Presidents and squadrons of other bipartisan cognoscenti to back the agreement, which would create a free-trade zone encompassing Canada, the U.S. and Mexico. Clinton can even count on such Republican NAFTA supporters as Henry Kissinger and James Baker, as well as multimedia star Rush Limbaugh. The President showed off some of NAFTA's big-name boosters at what was supposed to be a White House media event last Wednesday; so far as the public noticed, he might just...