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...late 1998 to have Roger secure a pardon for a relative. Business sources say White also is focusing on a firm, CLM - for Clinton, Locke & Morton - and the activities of Locke and Morton. Sources said they invoked Roger Clinton's name to line up investors for a scheme to import wallboard, scooters and other products from China. Their pitch: Roger is "the president's man in China," two sources told TIME. Locke and Morton have claimed their Fifth Amendment right not to talk to investigators...
Could serial murder be another cultural import, a virus floated in on the shared ether? Only if one assumes that it wasn't dormant in the community all along. In 1980 a Gallaudet student stabbed another to death and threw him out an eighth-story dorm window; the incident is little remembered on campus today. This may be because it contradicts the classic (and largely accurate) deaf model for misfortune--that it emanates from the hearing world. Says the publicity office's Prickett: "Most of the stories that get passed around are about a deaf person being hurt by misunderstanding...
...Paris are trying to play nice. "Bush came in with big theories," says a French diplomat, "but on all these questions the Administration has evolved." Yet Bush is hardly rolling over on all issues. In response to American steelmakers' allegations of "dumping" by foreign manufacturers, the Administration may impose import tariffs on steel, an idea protested across Europe and Asia. "Bush is a single-minded ideologue," complains Portugal's former President, Mario Soares. "The U.S. is doing things that have grave consequences for the world." Some Europeans are angry about other issues, from "American cultural hegemony"--the Golden Arches...
Last year South Korea exported 1.5 million passenger vehicles, but the country's drivers bought a mere 4,414 imports. Why? Although high import duties and tax audits of Koreans who bought imports were abolished years ago, attitudes have yet to change. A survey found that 58% of car owners thought it was "unpatriotic" to own an import, and 64% thought it would still attract a tax audit...
Many chronic problems are shared by the twin cities. They slurp from a common, underground desert aquifer, but Juarez's exploding population may run out of fresh water in as little as five years because it sits on a smaller portion of the aquifer. El Paso is looking to import water from 150 miles away. Druglords have killed so many people here that victims' families--on both sides of the Rio Grande--have their own support groups. Tuberculosis and hepatitis flow freely back and forth--and beyond. "The truck driver with TB who sits in our restaurants today will...