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Republicans used to love Ron Fino. "Gutsy" and "knowledgeable" was how they described him in July when Fino, an informant for the FBI, testified at hearings of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime about links between organized crime and labor unions, including one headed by a major supporter of Bill Clinton's. They may have different words for him now that Fino has linked another name to the mob--Jack Kemp...
...Fino has told FBI investigators and Democratic committee staff members about a Buffalo, New York, hotel developer, James Cosentino, who was a Kemp friend and contributor. (Documents from the Federal Election Commission show that Cosentino and his family gave $6,300 to Kemp's campaign in the mid-'80s.) According to Fino, Cosentino was tied to the mob--a charge he denies. In the 1980s, when Kemp was a Buffalo Congressman, Cosentino allegedly got at least $5 million in loans for a hotel construction project from a pension fund of the Buffalo local of the Laborers' International Union of North...
According to Fino, Kemp once asked him point blank whether Cosentino was connected to the mob (Fino says he told him yes), but Fino is hazy about when this exchange took place. Alixe Glen, Kemp's spokeswoman, calls the allegations "unfounded" and "politically motivated." Representative John Conyers of Michigan, the Judiciary Committee's ranking Democrat, has formally requested that the committee bring Fino back to Washington for questioning...
...already a voting-patterns nut in high school," he recalls. His senior thesis at Colgate in 1961 documented the shift in Republican support away from the Northeast and into the Sunbelt (which term he coined). Phillips went on to Harvard Law School and then onto the staff of Paul Fino, a Republican Congressman. From there, he joined the Nixon presidential campaign and, after Nixon's victory, the staff of Attorney General John Mitchell. "Because of my book, though," he says, "I was too controversial. I had to resign -- luckily for me, since I would have been asked to work...
...this even when painting that traditional focus of woozy emotion, the dog. Stubbs rendered the lean ferocity of the staghound, or the compact, questing efficiency of the foxhound, with perfect respect for their actual being as creatures in their own world. Even when he did pets-as in Fino and Tiny, circa 1791, which is dominated by a superbly rhythmical profile of the Prince of Wales' black-and-white spitz Fino-he set down their complicated markings and baroque puffs of newly washed hair with a measured, objective enthusiasm that transcended any hint of cuteness...