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...Retter interviewed hotel personnel, conference organizers and others and found that Clinton gave his speech at 8 a.m., was gone from the hotel by 9:30 a.m. and apparently did not return. The schedule of the conference and Clinton's own schedule--including a luncheon at the Governor's mansion for European industrialists--support this timetable. But if Retter's right, why didn't Clinton bring this up? A source says the decision was made to save the bombshell for trial. Lawyers for Jones, who is hoping the dismissal of her case will be reversed by a federal appellate court...
Such a victory would mark an unconventional, if modest, political comeback for Brown, now 60. In 1995, after three failed bids for the presidency, he sold his mansion in San Francisco's posh Pacific Heights and moved across the bay to Oakland's gritty waterfront. There he started up We the People, a nonprofit community center for grass-roots activism, and hectored his old rival Bill Clinton and other politicians on a national radio call-in show. Last fall, to the horror of other would-be mayors, he announced his candidacy...
...whenever he did "people would roll their eyes and say, 'Oh, Johnny is here,'" said Ratliffe. Chung hired Ratliffe, then 21, as an assistant in what he called his "bridge-building" mission between the U.S. and China, promising that she could live in a $3 million Virginia mansion, ride around Washington in a chauffeured town car, even meet Steven Spielberg. But Ratliffe quit after three months and one trip to Beijing, she said, because Chung never made good on his promises. "He was just this big braggart...
...Suharto?s wealth,? says TIME correspondent William Dowell. ?It also allows President Habibie to assert his independence from his former mentor. Most importantly, though, it sends a message to the family -- they?d better start making plans to leave.? The Suhartos may want to find out whether Mobutu?s mansion in the south of France is still on the market...
...toasts at the G-8 summit this week in England, the real fun begins: the two leaders will lock themselves in a room with a clutch of top officials to talk about government policy for four or five hours. The Sunday meeting at Chequers, the Prime Minister's country mansion north of London, will be the third such bilateral seminar, following one at the White House, when Blair visited in February, and the inaugural 12-hr. "wonkathon" at Chequers in November, when Hillary Clinton sat in for her husband...