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...into fund-raising telephone calls by President Clinton and Vice President Gore--but not because he believes that either could ever be prosecuted for soliciting money from the White House. Freeh's fear, according to knowledgeable federal sources, is that once the investigation is closed, FBI agents will be hamstrung in their ability to pursue other, potentially more serious questions about fund-raising activities by Clinton or Gore. Justice lawyers have insisted that FBI agents cannot fish around in the affairs of high-level officials unless there is an open investigation and "predication," meaning a specific basis for believing that...
...Indeed, judging by media reaction, the initiative is in danger of becoming hamstrung on the issue of affirmative action to the detriment of deeper concerns...
More than half of China's 125,000 state industries are hamstrung by outmoded management. Though the factories employ 110 million workers, they can barely pay them, and while these businesses soak up 90% of loans from state banks, they account for only a third of China's total industrial output. But Beijing has always been afraid of the social turmoil that could be unleashed if millions of those workers were dismissed...
...expected to put Humpty Dumpty back together again," admitted one of her aides, "but it's an almost impossible mission." This was already a major test of Albright's blunt and brassy diplomacy. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat are now so mutually distrustful, so hamstrung by extremist political constituents, that they cannot bear to talk to each other, much less negotiate in good faith. In a situation where toughness and the matching of wills are not always enough, even her most ardent admirers wonder whether Albright can help them climb out of the mess...
Stephenson is no political novice; and he can win races in which he is the underdog, including, when he was only 25, beating the mayor of Commerce. In the redrawn 11th--it's no longer African American, but is it conservative?--Stephenson says he won't be hamstrung by his party's agenda. He supports "workfare" as well as school-lunch programs...