Word: knightly
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Maybe not, but perhaps that's because he's always had Peter Knight. One of Gore's longtime advisers and his principal fund raiser, Knight tends to the darker side of Gore's world. It was Knight, the Clinton-Gore campaign manager in 1996, who prepared many of the "call sheets" that Gore worked from when dialing for dollars. Now, after Attorney General Janet Reno has begun a preliminary review of those calls under the independent-counsel law, government sources tell TIME that Justice is also probing Knight's multilayered connections to a Massachusetts manufacturer that won $33 million...
...Knight, working as the firm's lobbyist, smoothed the way for the donations, the contracts and an unusual personal visits to the firm's headquarters by Gore himself. The little-known Knight probe, under way for some time, could draw the Vice President deeper into a scandal that has its roots in Bill Clinton's last election but may have its greatest impact on Al Gore's next. In a TIME/CNN poll last week, Gore's approval rate dipped to 51%, the lowest level since March. If the next presidential election were held today, pitting Gore against Texas Governor George...
...what separates the movie from any other white-knight special is the palpable, big-screen reality of the characters: that is, while we know they're all blown up or simplified as necessary, we still can't wait to watch what happens when the upright Exley locks horns with Smith or goes to talk with prettyboy Vincennes whom we've up to then only known from more public appearances. People make mistakes or people shock us with coldly inhuman decisions, but things never subside into a predictable formula...
WASHINGTON: Storm clouds are gathering for Al Gore. After the fundraiser in the temple and phone calls in the White House, the focus is on one of his top aides and money-raisers, Peter Knight. TIME reports that Knight is the target of a Justice Department investigation over his Clinton-Gore ?96 campaign activities. Although Janet Reno is refusing to turn over the investigation to an independent counsel, Justice is probing Knight's connections to a Massachusetts manufacturer that won $33 million in contracts and breaks from the Clinton Administration ? while raising $132,000 for the President and his party...
Carey will have to stow the champagne and start having some beers with the members while he explains to them that he's not dirty. Meanwhile, in an ironic twist of history, Hoffa can play the white knight...