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...make public Clinton?s sworn deposition in the Paula Jones case -- on the grounds that it calls the President?s mental state into question. ?If the allegations are true, the President's emotional stability as commander-in-chief may be at issue during a period when serious crises loom in the Persian Gulf and elsewhere,? the motion read. Such legal efforts may be akin to a snowball in hell, but one thing is clear -- in this case, the public's need to know is only intensifying...
...YORK: Dark clouds loom on Wall Street, and the across-the-board bloodbaths this week means investors are getting inside. "Next week, earnings reports season begins in earnest," says FORTUNE writer Nelson Schwartz, "and there have been a lot of warnings of a lot of bad news, especially from the tech stocks." What's spoiling the mood? Asia. For a few days this week, Asia was looking up. South Korea was leveling off. Then came Indonesia. "The panic in Indonesia reminded everyone that the Asia problems aren't going away." In some ways, Indonesia, ripe with rumors of civil unrest...
Seoul-vent! South Korea's IMF cash injection cheers investors. But another round of bills loom for Seoul...
Challenges loom: a child-care conference, a summit on global warming, maybe even Social Security reform. But what best mobilizes this White House is a purely political fight, preferably a campaign. Which is why many members of the President's top staff quickly volunteered to rush across the street when Al Gore needed help explaining his role in the campaign fund-raising mess. "Having an election out there gives people a cause," says a White House official. In a White House addicted to campaigning, the Vice President is the employer of choice...
...those advising the royal family at this unhappy time will also be blunt. The national outpouring of affection and grief for the "people's princess" could be dismissed as a form of collective hysteria that will die away as surely as the echo of muffled funeral bells. No tumbrels loom for a monarchy that still figures centrally in the British psyche and way of life. But if the monarchy is to survive and thrive in the new millennium, it will be because it has listened to its subjects and responded, not with mere tactical concessions--a waiving of protocol here...