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...second choice or even your third. Yet Chung, the cartoonish Taiwan-born businessman best known for his role in the 1996 Clinton campaign-finance scandals ($366,000 in suspicious contributions; a plea bargain in which he's cooperating with investigators), was being described in Washington last week as the pivot man in a "China Plan" to do just that. For an influence peddler, he employed an unlikely m.o.--a garish, glad-handing personality that repelled those he wanted to seduce, from top White House aides to their interns. "Johnny was a hassle," an intern named Gina Ratliffe told House investigators...
...just the third blade, he explains. It's that they staggered the blades so each is progressively closer to the skin, dipped the ultra-thin blades in the same carbon that computer chips go into to make them stronger, and--here's the really big deal--made the blade pivot from the bottom, not the middle, forcing shavers to use it like a paintbrush. They also applied for 35 patents...
...alone is portrayed by the White House as too honorable to shade the truth, whose office has a peephole into the Oval Office, who is one of three White House staff members privy to the President's phone logs, and who has emerged as the silent and sturdy pivot for three big players: Clinton, Vernon Jordan and Lewinsky. Currie, whose stricken face as she left the grand jury became a national freeze-frame a month ago, is reportedly calmer now, not terrified of a return engagement but not exactly looking forward to it. She spent Saturday night at the Kennedy...
After all, the Quakers, who fell to Princeton 71-52 on Tuesday night, did lack Harvard's strength in the pivot, and Penn seemed quite thrown by the stifling Princeton defense...
CHICAGO: Anybody up for the Yankees vs the Mets? Three weeks after they rejected the same proposal, baseball owners did an abrupt pivot, ratifying a labor deal that provides for interleague play and at partially levels the playing field between big- and small-market clubs with a luxury tax. Many hardline owners had opposed the plan on the grounds that it did not do enough to control rapidly escalating player salaries. They were led by Chicago White Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf, who just days after railing about the need to cap spending signed Albert Belle to a five-year...