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...committee met in New York with Bollinger for the third time last weekend at a small Manhattan hotel. Bollinger also declined comment last weekend...
Instead, Clinton's ex-presidency is shaping up to be a shriveled version of his presidency. As he copes with a new crop of scandals--the $190,000 worth of going-away gifts, the $800,000-a-year midtown-Manhattan office suite he wanted to rent, the 177 last-minute clemencies he granted and, above all, the one he handed to fugitive billionaire Marc Rich--Clinton's new life feels like the old one, minus the power and the pulpit and the retinue of aides. His war room is a half-furnished Dutch Colonial in the New York suburbs...
...anything he has done put Clinton in danger of ostracism in New York. He was never going to fit in with the city's blue bloods. A snooty Manhattan philanthropist suggested at a dinner party last week that it is the Clintons themselves who should be pardoned: "They are, after all, so unsophisticated. They are from Arkansas. They don't know about people who go to Switzerland." But the money-media-fashion-fame crowd that makes up Manhattan's most interesting social set--a highly mobile, mutually exploitative crowd for which it's better to be interesting than good--will...
Sure, the first office Clinton wanted in Manhattan was estimated at $800,000 a year in rent, but when you figure the $1,300 a month I pay to live in this city with my girlfriend in a studio so small it often causes us to have sex by accident, I think it would have saved the taxpayer money in the long run to put a little square footage between Clinton and any assistants he hired. Plus he's got to run the country from somewhere. Trust me, this new guy ain't going to be doing...
...YORK--The presidential search reached a critical stage this weekend, as the search committee flew University of Michigan President Lee C. Bollinger--one of its top candidates--to Manhattan for a secret meeting at a posh midtown hotel...