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...plan." Jones' lawyers contend that her case is not about dollars--she has said she would give any damages money left after she paid her attorneys to charity--but reputation. "It's had an emotional toll on her that people are calling her a bimbo, trailer-park trash, a gold digger," says Jones' lawyer, Joseph Cammarata, who argues she should not have to wait until 2001 to begin clearing her name. He also contends that the burden on Clinton of proceeding with the lawsuit has been overstated. "This President goes on vacation, he plays golf in Hawaii and Australia...
...ethereal "ice princess" by TIME's Susanna Schrobsdorff, Oksana Baiul is attempting to set her crown straight after skidding her green Mercedes off the highway and into some Connecticut shrubbery Sunday morning. An unknown Ukrainian orphan who first emerged as an international sports celebrity after cinching an Olympic gold in 1994 at the age of 16, Oksana had slipped to the sidelines of world competition, plagued by back and knee injuries, weight gain and the distractions of stardom. On Tuesday, police charged Baiul, 19, who now lives in Connecticut, with drinking and reckless driving in the accident over the weekend...
Even those just joining the gold rush are sharing in the treasure. Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch and others are fighting one another to pay up to $125,000--plus the proverbial bonus--annually to newly minted investment bankers. Do they deserve it? Wrong question. Money is the way Wall Street keeps score, and the industry has been running it up. "This is America," is the answer of Bear Stearns' Greenberg. "If they get it, they deserve...
...same time, non-American firms like Deutsche Bank, Union Bank of Switzerland and Britain's NatWest are trying to muscle in on the gold mine by hiring away some of the hottest prospectors. Deutsche Bank lured investment banker Frank Quattrone from Morgan Stanley, apparently by offering the kind of deal that made it easy for him to walk away from a reported $10 million job at his old firm. Goldman Sachs is attempting to stave off poaching by creating a new rung on the corporate ladder: junior partners, who will share some of the riches traditionally reserved for full partners...
...play on a particular day watch a tape of Strug doing her Yurchenko 1 1/2 vault, nailing her landing and then keeping her balance as she pivots to the judges on one foot. As it turned out, Strug's vault wasn't needed to guarantee the U.S. women the gold medal in team gymnastics. But she didn't know that at the time. Said U.S. coach Mary Lee Tracy: "What we saw was a kid who was shaking her leg but who saluted and ran down the runway." Into our hearts...