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...outgoing--in so many ways!--President points the way for the soon-to-be-erstwhile White House pet. Whether Bill Clinton will hang around Hollywood with his glitzy pals, Westchester County, N.Y., at the new family digs or Senator Hillary Clinton's office on the Hill remains to be seen. This much is known: at age 54, he is the second youngest ex-President in American history, after Teddy Roosevelt, and he has many days ahead...
...Greeenspan finds himself making emergency rate-cuts this winter to soften the slowdown that he himself started, it may be hard for him to deny an incoming Republican president his pet project, as long as Bush is both sensible and polite about it. After putting Clinton (and himself) in the Fiscal Policy Hall of Fame, though, he's not going to rubber-stamp a tax cut because George Bush's son asks him to, even if young George sends mutual friends to do the asking. Greenspan has a legacy of his own to worry about...
...Democrats in attendance wanted to know how much authority they would have to raise their pet issues, considering the Republican presidency. Republicans questioned how they could tease a coherent, conservative program from a conflicted and divided legislature...
Browder has been one of the few foreigners to engage Russia's economic oligarchs in battle. In late 1997 he took on Vladimir Potanin, at the time Russia's top banker. Potanin had offered a closed bond issue for Sidanko, a major oil company that was one of his pet properties, to insiders of his own choosing. Browder cried foul and adroitly used the Western press to plead his case that the new shares arising from the bond issue would dilute minority shareholders' stakes. In the end, Russia's Federal Securities Commission canceled the issue...
CABINET: By sharing pet duties with cats Ernie and India, Spot shows commitment to equal opportunity and foreign relations