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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What do you call someone who works in secret with a multimillion-dollar budget, pressures wives to testify against their husbands, compels state agencies to turn over the names of thousands of workers who might have a grudge against their employer--all in order to learn whether a Cabinet member got some free football tickets and a few other gifts? The answer: independent counsel Donald Smaltz, who has become a walking, talking argument for changing the way this nation investigates its high public officials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PERIL OF PROSECUTORIAL PASSION | 6/16/1997 | See Source »

Whether dealing with an up-and-coming rapper or a multimillion dollar corporation, Jones' personal ability to bridge the gap between black and white, old and young, has been the key to his business success...

Author: By Jal D. Mehta, | Title: Quincy Jones has built a career by melding the music of four decades. | 6/4/1997 | See Source »

Jack E. White's commentary on baseball's Jackie Robinson [ESSAY, March 31] should be required reading--not only for multimillion-dollar utility infielders but also for every young person who aspires to be anything. It is powerfully eloquent in its simplicity and brevity, which should well serve a generation that has the attention span of a strobe light. MIKE KALLAY Honolulu

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 28, 1997 | 4/28/1997 | See Source »

...avid scuba diver, LeBow has enjoyed the tycoon life-style to the hilt, operating from Florida's millionaire ghetto on Fisher Island. During the late 1980s, he chartered a jet to fly dozens of friends to a multimillion-dollar party in London to celebrate the launch of his private yacht, modeled after Queen Victoria's. He reportedly gave guests gold coins bearing a likeness of himself wearing a Lord Nelson hat. He has sold off some of his lavish baubles in recent years, but his profligate reputation remains a flaw. In the RJR fight, opponents delighted in propagating the slogan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POPULIST HERO OR BOTTOM FEEDER? | 3/31/1997 | See Source »

...made him fall from a four-story building. The fall broke his spine and paralyzed him from the waist down. But after his father made his third comeback, in 1978, the paraplegic Pufang used his connections to create the Chinese Federation for the Disabled, which is now a multimillion-dollar charity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROSPECTS FOR THE PRINCELINGS | 3/3/1997 | See Source »

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