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...Republic. Since taking over the neoliberal weekly in October 1991, Sullivan has kept it roiling with controversy, running such cover stories as a 1994 attack on Clinton's health-care plan by Betsy McCaughey (which many credit with turning the political tide against the plan) and a lengthy excerpt from The Bell Curve, the book by Charles Murray and Richard J. Herrnstein, linking IQ with race. Last week, after 4 1/2 years at the helm, Sullivan resigned as editor and found himself at the center of another controversy. The question: Did he quit, or was he fired...
JAMES STEWART'S BOOK BLOOD SPORT should be required reading for every U.S. citizen of voting age [Book Excerpt, March 18]. It reveals an extremely disturbing pattern of deceit, dishonesty and use of power for personal gain by the Clintons. The moral decadence in America has spread as high as the White House. RICHARD R. KURTZ Angier, North Carolina Via E-mail...
AMERICANS ARE BORED WITH WHITEwater and appalled at the amount of money being spent for a political investigation that has gone on too long and proved no wrongdoing. What a waste of space for you to publish the book excerpt. CHARLENE E. BOSTROM Bethel, Vermont Via E-mail...
WHAT A MOUNTAIN HAS BEEN MADE OUT of this molehill. Whitewater was not a nefarious criminal conspiracy. The book excerpt does not offer any new insights into the Clintons' character that aren't obvious from their years in public service. Bill Clinton is not particularly motivated to make money. That is no surprise, given his choice to serve as a low-paid Governor instead of cashing in on his Yale law degree at a big-money law firm. And Hillary Clinton is stubborn and tends to hold on to causes, both winning and losing ones, long after others have given...
Many of the events described in this excerpt are being investigated by independent counsel Starr. The bankers in Flippin, Arkansas, involved in the Whitewater loan, for example, have testified before the grand jury and have been instructed by Starr's staff not to speak about what they know. The Clintons' and McDougals' activities in Whitewater, involving federally regulated banks, savings and loans, federal taxes, favors bestowed and accepted, are areas covered by a network of criminal and civil laws. Under federal law Title 18, section 1344, for example, it may be a crime to submit a false financial-disclosure statement...