Word: marc
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...Marc J. Ambinder
...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; his lieutenant, a former White House valet named Oscar who keeps Clinton supplied with diet Coke...
...prosper under it all has been the publishing business. The Senate Ethics Committee last week approved Hillary's $8 million book deal; Bill is meeting with publishers to discuss his; and HarperCollins announced a new paperback edition of the 15-year-old, out-of-print Metal Men: How Marc Rich Defrauded the Country, Evaded the Law and Became the World's Most Sought-After Corporate Criminal. The pardon spree is also the first Clinton scandal to offer local angles to city editors across the country...
...lead double lives in some way. But our hypocrisies tend to be misdemeanors. Small deceptions. We say we're liberal and then vote for a conservative. We rail about Marc Rich as a tax evader and then don't pay the Social Security tax for our housekeeper. But we make a kind of peace with it. We know our limits. We know where the line is, and we don't cross it. Hanssen apparently not only crossed it, he lived it, he justified it to himself and held himself up as an example of fidelity. That's a moral crime...
...before the end of the Clinton Administration. ARTHUR LEVITT, chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, was sitting in his Washington office. "I got a call from a very senior White House official," Levitt told TIME, "to ask what I knew about PINKY GREEN and MARC RICH." After touching base with his enforcement team, Levitt spoke again with the White House. He reported that the SEC had no jurisdiction over the pair because their business was commodities, not securities. Then Levitt says he took it upon himself to express a view about the proposed pardon. "I said I personally felt...