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...Marvin Rosen, the Democratic Party's finance chairman, has privately resumed the practice. Donors tell TIME that Rosen, a Miami lawyer, recited a laundry list of benefits to the big-money contributors he met in New York City and elsewhere. For $100,000, they say, Rosen has said a giver can get a short meeting with the President in the White House; $10,000 to $50,000 would earn a dinner with the President at a posh Washington hotel. One Democratic business executive said Rosen even hinted at staying overnight at the White House. Rosen denies he has offered anything...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "I represent a lot of working people of all races...who resent the government's being viewed as the giver of free entitlements...
Such surveillance rarely uncovers serious abuse or dereliction, says Richard Heilweil of Babywatch. Yet about 70% of parents who hire Babywatch wind up dismissing the care giver for some minor transgression, such as talking on the phone or watching TV. "It is troubling to see so many people treating their domestic employees in a way they would never tolerate being treated themselves," says Lewis Maltby, a lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union who is working with outraged nanny groups to find "the right case" to challenge the surveillance. He will argue that federal laws prohibiting undisclosed audiotaping should apply...
Free cable is, after all, the force that binds this movie together. In the world of "The Cable Guy," Carey, the giver of cable, becomes the brazen icon of a false god, pulling a motley crew of followers under his spell and making them cheer his vaguely pornographic karaoke rendition of "Somebody to Love...
DreamWorks SKG partner David Geffen would like to be thought of as a political Zen master, a general without troops, a giver without desires. He talks frequently with White House officials, gave $320,000 to Democrats during the past four years and brought Bill Clinton into his Malibu, California, home to dine with key contributors like Steven Spielberg ($200,000) and Jeffrey Katzenberg ($195,000). Yet Geffen told TIME, "I have no active involvement in trying to influence legislation of any kind." He is the President's point man in Hollywood, making connections and keeping the campaign money flowing, even...