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...ahead, Beijing added to the uncertainty by trying to browbeat the electorate into voting against him. But when all the ballots were counted, Chen had notched just over 39% of the votes. His closest rival, the independent candidate James Soong, had nearly 37%, while the KMT candidate, Vice President Lien Chan, slumped with a 23% showing...
SHERMAN HELMSLEY Movin' on down: '70s Jeffersons star files for bankruptcy. Next: Charlie's Angels with tax lien...
Then all hell broke loose. Jones doubled her demand to $2 million; a previous set of lawyers rushed in with an $800,000 lien against her; her current lawyers in Dallas, who had run up more than $1.5 million in legal costs, announced after fighting with husband Steve Jones and McMillan that they would quit the case; and Clinton's lawyers backed away from the whole circus. Things were stalled until last week when the newest Jones attorney, Susan's husband William McMillan, approached Bennett and agreed to put in writing that Hirschfeld's offer was off the table...
...group, the Paula Jones Legal Fund, is siphoning away fund-raising cash. "The fund implies it's going to pay the lawyers," he says, but the money actually pays for Jones' expenses, including her makeover and clothes (more than $4,000), phone bills and savings for the $800,000 lien held by her previous attorneys. Whitehead, who took the case to raise his institute's profile, expects to lose money on Jones. Rutherford has written letters of protest to the fund and to Bruce Eberle, a direct-mail fund raiser working for the fund...
...understand the advantages of avoiding an SAT verdict better than Mark Meadows and Lien Le. Meadows says he can't remember exactly how he fared on the test, but he knows it wasn't a score that would vault him from a middle-class life in Santa Rosa, Calif., to Harvard. His mother, a nurse, had home-schooled him for several years, and his math skills were weak. He graduated from high school with a 3.6 GPA and went to tiny Pacific Union College. But he thought he needed a bigger name on his graduate-school applications; he applied...