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...many times as he needs to. Last week Bill Clinton emerged from his self-imposed post-pardon-scandal exile. When he opened his new office on 125th Street in Harlem, with its $350,000 annual rent (his first choice, Carnegie Towers in midtown, would have cost taxpayers $800,000), it was full-frontal Clinton--winking, mugging at the most mundane remarks, pointing excitedly into the crowd as if he had just spotted a long-lost friend or a donor. Except for Senator Chuck Schumer, stage center, trying to boogie with the homeboys, it was picture perfect, a routine ribbon cutting...
...Africa with Kenny (Babyface) Edmonds, enough of a hip-hopper for teens to notice but not so much to remind people of Clinton's bad-boy genes. He is also helping earthquake victims in India (one trip and $10 million raised so far) and linking up small businesses in Harlem with the big ones in midtown. Of course he's cashing in like no other President has done before. This week he takes his pick of a dozen book deals, all offering advances, according to a publishing source, "beyond the papal range"--which means he beats his wife...
...breezy and aerodynamic Bill Clinton - welcomed like a hero in Harlem, awarded a $10-12 million book contract by Alfred A. Knopf - seems to have gotten over his post-presidential malaise rather briskly. There was someone named Marc Rich, we vaguely remember, there was something about pardons.... But that was in another country...
...Africa with Kenny (Babyface) Edmonds, enough of a hip-hopper for teens to notice but not so much to remind people of Clinton's bad-boy genes. He is also helping earthquake victims in India (one trip and $10 million raised so far) and linking up small businesses in Harlem with the big ones in midtown. Of course he's cashing in like no other President has done before. This week he takes his pick of a dozen book deals, all offering advances, according to a publishing source, "beyond the papal range" - which means he beats his wife...
...friends to swing among the swells on Martha's Vineyard. There must be some middle ground between these two. Bush is promising to make a few sorties out among the people during August to whip up enthusiasm for his presidency. He should review a tape of Clinton in Harlem to see how it's done...