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...Jordan and the Palestinians--with the caveat that he would need to move freely throughout the region. Israel launched a "confidential initiative" to get the U.S. off Rich's back, according to the memo. Then Foreign Minister Shimon Peres met with Dennis Ross, Clinton's Middle East envoy, to plead Rich's case, but Ross was unconvinced. Five years later, of course, Prime Minister Ehud Barak vouched for Rich again--this time directly to Clinton, with better results...
...White House event featuring Barbra Streisand, Rich's ex-wife Denise takes Clinton aside to plead Rich's case. In recent years, Denise has contributed nearly $1 million to the Democratic Party and its candidates, $70,000 to Hillary's Senate campaign, $450,000 to the Clinton library and $10,000 to Clinton's legal defense fund...
...prehistoric as that ape-man. Life, after all, is a story. It provides us with an instinctive appetite for all the other stories we come upon or create, from the fairy tales at the beginning of our days to the obituary at the end. Children always plead, "Tell it to me again." Here are six people who do just that, in ways you never imagined...
...week. DMX, through his publicist, announced plans to turn himself in to authorities to serve a 15-day prison sentence for a traffic infraction (in my critical opinion, the judge ought to tack on a few more days just for DMX's last two CDs). Eminem, also this week, pleaded guilty to carrying a concealed weapon, and prosecutors agreed to drop an assault charge against him (the Grammy folks, who nominated Eminem's bigoted but best-selling "The Marshall Mathers LP" for album of the year, should probably plead guilty to soliciting...
...That's when Peres jumped in. A vigorous advocate of the joint economic projects, he instructed Itamar Rabinovich, Israel's ambassador in Washington, to press on with the State Department. Peres himself met with Ross and the U.S. ambassador to Israel, Martin Indyk, to plead the case in person, the memo says...