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...tabloid reputation as a party girl, but after meeting her one comes to suspect that her girlish veneer may be more than just an actressy affectation. That wouldn't be surprising in someone whose childhood was spent sheltered in the famously vast Spelling mansion (her father is TV producer Aaron Spelling), who was escorted to school by bodyguards, who hasn't traveled much and who has been working what are often 18-hour days since the age of 17. Chatting with her, one learns she is afraid of ants, likes "crafts" (she is a practitioner of the nearly lost...
...environmental cleanup czar, Thomas Grumbly, sent its stock sharply higher. Knight helped land a $460,000 contract for the company to demonstrate its toxic waste neutralizing technology at a government laboratory, congressional investigators say. And Haney was a frequent guest at the White House and the Vice President's mansion. He, his firm and its officers raised or contributed $130,000 towards the Democratic Party and the Clinton-Gore re-election campaign managed by Knight...
...past donors and potential givers were treated to a special set of Washington briefings with top officials that culminated in an hourlong session with the President. The events normally took place in the cozy, first-floor Map Room, a tastefully furnished, book-lined enclave in the Executive Mansion where F.D.R. charted the Allied advances in Europe. Coffee was served, along with pastries. More than 1,500 people attended the coffees; while not all were donors, computer analyses later credited the guests with pouring more than $27 million into Democratic coffers before or after the events...
...from the Rhode Island set of his next movie, Meet Joe Black (the film is "inspired by"--and not, a chorus of publicists insists, "a remake of"--Death Takes a Holiday), to talk about his new release, Seven Years in Tibet. Just down the lawn from a Newport-style mansion, we are sitting in the estate's opulent boathouse, itself a minimansion slung over a bay so ludicrously sun-dappled it could double for Golden Pond...
...hard and soft accounts. Gore has already said he didn't know about the practice. Then there is the question of whether Clinton's calls were made from the White House family quarters, a bit of hairsplitting required because of disputes over whether the residential areas of the Executive mansion qualify as space used for official government duties under the law in question. Most Democrats say no. Most Republicans say yes. A final dispute: whether a phoned request for money "occurs" where the President placed the call or where the would-be donor received it. Presuming that's at some...