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Some of the revelations surrounding Bill Clinton's eleventh-hour pardons have fallen under the "Gosh, that's embarrassing" category. Take Hugh Rodham's lobbying effort - and his $400,000 payday after securing two pardons from his brother-in-law. Or even the weekend allegations that Rodham asked White House lawyers about pardons or commutations for Nora and Eugene Lum, a high-powered couple convicted of making illegal campaign contributions to Democrats. (The query, if it was made, was unsuccessful - neither Lum was pardoned...
...Across the European Union, beef consumption was down by an average of 27% last month and export markets have collapsed. In Germany, Spain and Italy, sales have plunged between 40% and 50%. France's turnover has fallen by some 30%. Only in Britain, where the epidemic started in the 1980s, causing 83 human deaths and prompting the slaughter of nearly 5 million cattle, has consumption returned to pre-bse levels...
...orbit, was ferried around Moscow in an armored convoy. His movements resembled military maneuvers. No more. He was spotted recently on a main Moscow thoroughfare-on foot and alone. Malevich lovers, at home and abroad, now worry that the same fate-obscurity-awaits the most alluring gems of the fallen oligarch's treasure trove...
...Then a miracle happened. Italy's efforts to join the euro led to a steep drop in interest rates. By April 1998 the market average for new loans had fallen below 8.3%. Tomaso, a lawyer, noticed that this appeared to render his Banca di Roma loan illegal under a 1996 anti-usury act. The law prohibits creditors from charging more than one-and-a-half times current rates. Tomaso went to the bank and asked to renegotiate; he first was turned down, and then the bank offered a deal with a hefty refinancing fee. But the Longos kept pushing...
...Harvard men's basketball team has fallen on hard times as of late and things will only get rougher as the Crimson embark on a crucial two game road trip this weekend when it travels to perennial powerhouses Princeton and Penn...