Word: mellon
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...putting them in a position to hit Clinton with questions about Lewinsky. And more than a year ago, Arkansas state troopers reported that Starr's Arkansas team was asking them about Clinton's relationship with Jones. Then there is the omnipresent billionaire and funder of anti-Clinton investigations, Richard Mellon Scaife, whose alleged interference in Starr's Whitewater probe is being examined by a grand jury in Arkansas...
...piece of scholarly research, as opposed to a debate of one side over the other," said Glenda K. Burkhart of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation...
...depressed to get out of bed. Darkly, I reach down to the pile of debris on the floor and root through empty ice-cream containers, half-empty cigarette cartons and thick Windows 98 self-help books to find what I'm looking for: that new Carnegie Mellon University study suggesting that using the Internet can cause isolation, loneliness and depression. Whatever, I sigh, and roll over for another nap. But later, when I wake up and go online, I can't seem to shake the thing. The researchers purport to have measured, over the course of two years, the deleterious...
Your chart showing Richard Mellon Scaife's support of various conservative causes [NATION, June 22] mentioned the political biography I wrote on the President, Boy Clinton. I must protest your description of it as an "attack book." That sounds terribly grim. Far more accurate was your reference a few months back to the American Spectator as a "gleefully anti-Clinton magazine" [Nation, April 13]. That captured the spirit. Somehow, political ineptitude can be as amusing as it is dismaying. R. EMMETT TYRRELL JR., Editor in Chief American Spectator Arlington...
...feel sorry for you, Richard Mellon Scaife. You are squandering your money on a constellation of devious schemes intended to sabotage the politics and people who do not please you. Nice try, wrong country. You and your Machiavellian ambitions would be right at home in any Third World country run by a dictator. There you could hand out lighter pay envelopes to much cruder henchmen to do your bidding. MEL ZALOUDEK River Grove...