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Well, finally--the president we deserve, a morally square peg in the Oval Office, a man whose primary emotional color is true blue. James Marshall is the kind of guy who stands up boldly to international thuggery as well as to temporizers on his own staff. He has a nice sense of humor, a good marriage and a daughter who mirrors his virtues. He is also, as it turns out, physically brave and uncannily resourceful under life-threatening pressure. And he looks a lot like the reliably doughty Harrison Ford...
...midlevel Commerce job proved to be far from the center of power. So Giroir helped Huang get into campaign finance, the cockpit of politics. Last week's hearing portrayed Huang's patron as relentlessly promoting him in repeated visits and calls to party officials and at an Oval Office meeting with Clinton and Riady. It worked: Huang became deputy party finance chairman in December 1995 and raised $3.4 million. About $1.6 million had to be returned after the party decided the money could have come from abroad...
MOVIES: In "Air Force One," "Harrison Ford is the president we deserve," says TIME's Richard Schickel, "a morally square peg in the Oval Office." When Air Force One is taken over by terrorists (led by Gary Oldman), Ford's James Marshall eludes the invaders, and finds himself stalking the surprisingly capacious byways of the plane. "There is good -- sometimes witty -- suspense in Marshall?s single-handed efforts to coordinate a rescue effort by his Washington staff with his own attempts to set his people free using whatever modest tools (a table knife, a cell phone, a fax machine) come...
...unholy liaison between foreign dollars and diplomacy began as a small, quiet meeting in the Oval Office. Standing before Bill Clinton on a September morning in 1995 were James Riady, the suave Chinese-Indonesian financier who was pushing to keep U.S. trade lines to China open; and Huang, networker par excellence, offering to raise money for the Democratic National Committee from Asian Americans he thought were good for $7 million...
Which may well mean there will never be a trial--even though the Supreme Court last week ruled that one could start while Clinton is still in the Oval Office. The Justices decided 9-0 that a sitting President has no immunity against civil suits involving his nonofficial actions, and so a trial of Jones' allegations of sexual harassment by Clinton when he was Governor of Arkansas need not be delayed until after Clinton's term as President has ended...