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...Rabbi Menachem Raab, former dean of a Hillel Community Day School in North Miami Beach, retired to Israel two and a half years ago. A registered Democrat in Dade County, Raab voted for Gore on his absentee ballot. "It's mind-boggling, very unfathomable, that all of a sudden this vote counts," he says. "I think it's very exciting that an individual vote of people living in Israel affects the American scene." And that's a notion that's awakened even some Floridian exiles who didn't bother to cast their ballot. Suggestions in the Israeli media that legitimate...
...Rabbi Menachem Raab, former dean of a Hillel Community Day School in North Miami Beach, retired to Israel two and a half years ago. A registered Democrat in Dade County, Raab voted for Gore on his absentee ballot. "It's mind-boggling, very unfathomable, that all of a sudden this vote counts," he says. "I think it's very exciting that an individual vote of people living in Israel affects the American scene." And that's a notion that's awakened even some Floridian exiles who didn't bother to cast their ballot. Suggestions in the Israeli media that legitimate...
...Hoffa carries some baggage of his own. His candidacy in a rerun will surely trigger new scrutiny over ties to his father's old allies. According to the book Mob Lawyer by Frank Ragano and Selwyn Raab, James and his wife received thousands of dollars in cash as a wedding gift from Mob-connected associates of his father--a charge Hoffa has denied. And there's also the likelihood that the Independent Review Board that monitors the union will closely scrutinize Hoffa's campaign finances. He raised $3.6 million for the '96 race, including more than $2 million from untraced...
...years when her book was announced. JON STEWART's talk show was canceled, yet he too will be between covers. But don't start making room on your bookshelf just yet for all these would-be TV authors. Remember Rosie O'Donnell's reportedly $3 million book deal? Jamie Raab of Warner Books (owned by Time Warner, as is her show) says her opus, which was due out this fall, remains in an "embryonic" stage. And the deal John Tesh signed in 1995 for a memoir is off. "Right now," says a William Morrow spokesman, "John wants to concentrate...
...Moscow. Yeltsin has canceled all engagements until next week, including trips to Norway and the Russian city of Murmansk. RECOVERING. LES PAUL, 80, musician and father of the electric guitar; after collapsing while preparing to travel to a Nashville birthday concert; in Mahwah, New Jersey. OUSTED. G. KIRK RAAB, 59, president and ceo of biotech giant Genentech; following the revelation that he had requested a personal $2 million loan guarantee from Roche Holding Ltd. while negotiating a merger with the firm; in San Francisco. During Raab's five years at Genentech, the company's revenues nearly doubled. But shareholders have...