Word: ludwig
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Comptroller of the Currency Eugene Ludwig, the nation's top bank regulator, wrote in a memo that surfaced last week that President Clinton had approached him for "advice and counsel" regarding the "legal-regulatory issues relative to the Whitewater matter." Ludwig says he responded that it would be "impermissible" for him to give such advice. The White House retorted that the only information Clinton sought from Ludwig, an old college pal, was the names of real estate experts who could write sympathetic articles about Whitewater issues...
...other snippet could also come up at the hearings. Clinton himself, it turns out, asked Eugene Ludwig, who as Comptroller of the Currency is the Treasury's top banking regulator, for advice about the Madison investigation. According to Ludwig's spokesman Lee Cross, at a Renaissance Weekend conference over the New Year holiday in South Carolina, Clinton asked Ludwig, who was sitting next to the President in a seminar, "if he could provide any advice on the Whitewater matter, advice on the legal and regulatory issues" involved in the collapse of Madison. Ludwig consulted Hanson and deputy White House counsel...
...Lots of people laughed. Lots of people smiled," said Eddie Ludwig, who carried the sign among a small band of demonstrators in downtown Portland. "I haven't had one negative response. I was expecting to get run off the curb...
...begin with the young Ludwig (Clancy Chassay), an impudent, clever boy in a strange toga, who introduces us to his family: a rich, overly-educated Viennese household. It is the boy who narrates this film of his life, accompanied by a green fuzzy Martian (Nabil Shaban) who insists on engaging the precocious child in philosophical discussion. Together they travel to England and we watch Ludwig's intellectual development from an imaginative, over-stimulated youth into a sober, work-obsessed pupil of Bertrand Russell (Micheal Gough) and an awkward frequenter of the oh-so-intellectually fashionable Bloomsbury crowd, including the lovely...
...Kevin Collins as Johnny, the lover of Maynard Keynes (John Quentin), as well as of Wittgenstein himself--sort of. Jarman is intent upon portraying homosexual love both as it is manifested in Keyne's and Johnny's relationship and as it is denied and gradually, tacitly ackknowledged by Ludwig...