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...Reported by Jeffrey H. Birnbaum and Nina Burleigh/Washington
...Reported by Nina Burleigh, James Carney, Viveca Novak and Michael Riley/Washington
...million check-kiting scheme. In her rambling confessional, the Utah congresswoman said she will not resign, and attempted to give reporters a "full accounting" of how she says her husband duped her with a promised marriage gift of $5 million. "It was a virtuoso performance," says TIME's Nina Burleigh, "a remarkable combination of contrition and lawyerly acumen." It is also puzzling, says Burleigh. "She has shown herself to be a very intelligent woman while in Washington. So the turning over wholesale of her financial dealings to her husband, and her apparent failure ever to question those dealings, seems...
...Grinkov's side after he collapsed during a Nov. 20 morning practice at the Lake Placid Olympic Center for the upcoming Stars on Ice tour. Grinkov and Gordeeva had been rehearsing a program set to the music of Edvard Grieg's Concerto in A Minor. (Coincidentally, Grieg's wife Nina, a singer, was his professional partner.) After the routine, Sergei told Katia he was dizzy and slumped to the ice. For the first time since they began skating together in 1982, it was Gordeeva who softened Grinkov's fall...
...TIME's Nina Burleigh reports that the federal budget talks are in such disarray that some congressional insiders are predicting a permanent stalemate. After Tuesday night's meeting between congressional leaders and Administration officials, which ended without resolving any of the numerous differences, "many House Republicans are beginning to fear that there may never be a deal," Burleigh says. "It's beginning to look possible that they could keep the government running with a continuing resolution through the election year, which would give Clinton a great campaign issue." The other budget rumor circling the Hill, says Burleigh, is that congressional...