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...finance various real estate developments in the mid-1980s. The indictment alleges that Hale gave McDougal four loans backed by the Small Business Administration in exchange for $825,000 in financing by McDougal for a fraudulent real estate deal. The financing was provided by McDougal's savings and loan, Madison Guaranty. Part of Madison's $825,000 was allegedly kicked back to Hale so he could qualify for $1.5 million more in SBA money. The indictment alleges that in 1985 and 1986, Hale, Tucker and the McDougals conspired to shuffle money between various entities they controlled to benefit themselves...
During the mid-1980s, as McDougal struggled to prop up his sinking S&L, Madison Guaranty, he increasingly turned to Clinton--friend, business partner and Governor of Arkansas--with requests. Once, McDougal complained to a Clinton aide about a state health inspector who was causing him problems with a land development--and who was later reassigned. In a March 1986 memo from the aide, McDougal is quoted as saying "he hadn't spent $60,000" on Bill Clinton over the years only to lose a battle with a state health inspector. In late 1984, when McDougal was seeking changes...
...House Whitewater panel played a tape of a conversation in whicha lawyer with the Resolution Trust Corp. seemed to suggest that a staffer alter her report on Madison Guaranty, the failed savings and loan owned by the Clintons' former business partner, for political purposes. Reason: the lawyer said doing so would please RTC head Jack Ryan and other senior officials. "There are answers they would be happier about, you know, because it would get them, you know, off the hook, you know, and that would be about Whitewater." Ratan says: "What the Republicans are trying to show is that where...
...female dilemma at its starkest: Not the pallid "family-vs.-career" predicament, but a zero-sum choice between romantic love and mother love, with guaranteed misery no matter which you chose. Novels like Anna Karenina taught us the "bad" woman's fate, which is ideally suicide. The Bridges of Madison County gives us the "good" woman's answer, which is to renounce romantic love for the sake of husband and kids. But the more disquieting message of that story is that four days and three nights with a sexy stranger can outweigh anything else that ever happens in a "good...
...have correctly solved the fins-to-feet riddle. Other factors could be involved as well, including homeobox genes that are not Hox genes (that is, they do not affect the overall structure of an animal). Last year Sean Carroll, a developmental biologist at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Madison, Wisconsin, showed that a homeobox gene involved in insect-limb formation also controls the genetic signals that paint spots on butterfly wings. In essence, says Carroll, butterflies use an old gene to perform a new trick. "Evolution did not have to invent new genes," he observes. "One basic toolbox gives...