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...Lehrer of the Public Broadcasting System, the President was asked about possible pardons for Jim and Susan McDougal, onetime owners of Madison Guaranty and co-investors with the Clintons in Whitewater, and Jim Guy Tucker, Bill Clinton's successor as Governor of Arkansas. All three have been convicted of fraud in cases brought by Kenneth Starr, the Whitewater special prosecutor. Clinton replied, "I've given no consideration" to pardons; then he described in some detail the procedure he would follow if he did. That struck some columnists as dangling the prospect of a pardon in front of Susan McDougal...
Disgraced televangelist JIM BAKKER, he of the PTL ministry, has teared up on TV plenty of times, so an interview with BARBARA WALTERS was probably no big deal. Bakker, who's on parole after serving five years of an eight-year fraud conviction (chief duty: cleaning halls and toilets), says he now realizes it was wrong for a man of God to be paid such a high salary. He learned this, he says, from the Bible, a book he was apparently not so familiar with before his prison stint. He also tells Walters that a fellow inmate tried to rape...
Also set for November is the trial of a consumer-fraud lawsuit filed by the California Nurses Association against the 508-bed Alta Bates Medical Center in Berkeley. The suit claims that the hospital enforced a gag rule on its employees to "cover up the essential nature" of its patient-focused care plan. Viki Ardito, Alta Bates' acting vice president of patient-care services, calls the lawsuit frivolous: "It's about maintaining the union's people and their dues...
...idea that we are cutting education spending because we are not increasing it as much as [Clinton] is, is a fraud," Barbour said...
Even if you ignore his one felony conviction (murder) and his two acquittals (fraud, murder), his reputation as a shameless exploiter of young boxers is probably enough to convince most HLS students to look else-where for a role model...