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...TIME Washington correspondent Viveca Novak says Smaltz will have to win big in the courtroom ? that is, get the majority of his 39 indictments to stick. And that's a far-from-certain prospect. "This will be a D.C. trial, with a D.C. jury. They've got a very healthy skepticism of independent prosecutors," says Novak...
...Affairs Committee's first order of business was to give the Justice Department the brush-off. All nine Republicans and a handful of Democrats on the committee supported granting immunity to the nuns over the objections of Janet Reno, who claimed it would hamper her investigation. TIME's Viveca Novak doubts that the nuns' testimony will be worth the commotion. "Remember, we already had (DNC Finance Director) Richard Sullivan testify that John Huang assured Gore's staff that this wasn't going to be a fundraiser," she said. "People tend to forget that if the nuns' contributions went into...
...bitter part of his passing," says Kim Novak, the object of his obsession in Vertigo, "is that there'll never be another Jimmy Stewart. He wasn't an actor; he was the real thing. But the sweet part is that he was ready to move on. The last time I spoke with him, about five weeks ago, I felt he had already left on another journey. He was in a peaceful place where he didn't want to know about earthly things. He was like a brave Indian warrior who knew it was time to move on and was facing...
...resignation as the lead counselor for the House panel investigating alleged fund-raising irregularities at the DNC and the 1996 election is the latest in a string of setbacks which threaten tear the probe apart. But while the investigation is not quite dead in the water, TIME's Viveca Novak says this latest feud clearly sinks the panel deeper into the quagmire. "You had Dan Burton saying at one point he wanted to start hearings in late July, but Rowley's resignation makes that increasingly unlikely. And questions still linger about Burton himself. The Justice Department is investigating his fund...
...With reporting by James Carney, Viveca Novak and Douglas Waller/Washington