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Roland Dumas has been many things in his life?Resistance fighter, lawyer, politician, art collector, Foreign Minister and, most recently, president of France?s highest tribunal. But last week, as the silver-haired ex-barrister faced charges that he had pressured a state-owned oil company to hire his mistress and lived grandly off her income, Dumas played a role he had never imagined: defendant...
HENRY CISNEROS Former Housing Secretary lied to the FBI about how much money he paid his mistress to keep their relationship quiet--a crime of private passion with which Clinton might have identified...
...bringing an end to a probe that had dragged on through most of his presidency. But on Saturday, issuing a slew of pardons, Clinton took a major swipe at all the independent counsels who had dogged him and his cabinet. Former HUD secretary Henry Cisneros and his onetime mistress were pardoned. Several figures who were squeezed by longtime Whitewater independent counsel Kenneth Starr, Ray's predecessor - Steve Smith, Robert Palmer, Chris Wade and Susan McDougal - were given dispensation...
...Southern California's right wing in the 1960s and '70s; of cancer; in Washington. In 1972 Schmitz replaced George Wallace when the presidential candidate was paralyzed by a would-be assassin. His political career effectively ended in 1982 when it was revealed that he had a pregnant mistress, a former student with whom he had already had a son. And there was further scandal. In 1997 his teacher-daughter Mary Kay LeTourneau, 35, was convicted of having a sexual relationship with a 13-year-old student...
...written his first novel, Boy Still Missing (Morrow), due in bookstores in February, and it's getting the kind of buzz a former factory worker can only dream of. The story of a teenage boy who gets into a sexually charged relationship with his father's mistress, leading to an accidental death, it has been championed by such big-name writers as Wally Lamb and Frank McCourt. The birth of a new literary star? "I'm so busy writing my next book," says Searles, "I haven't had a chance to process any of this...