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...been named head of the Federal Reserve, and green he was. Over at Treasury, the politically savvy but market-naive James Baker spooked traders every time he moved his lips. Today we have the same Fed chairman, but he could not be a more adept helmsman. At Treasury, Robert Rubin, America's foremost fixed-income trader in his days at Goldman Sachs, can coldcock a decline in the dollar with a few choice words...
Some of the coffees flirted more obviously with influence peddling. When Clinton met in May 1996 with top officials from J.P. Morgan, Wells Fargo, Chase Manhattan and other major financial institutions, the President brought along his top banking regulators, Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin and Comptroller of the Currency Eugene Ludwig. But what has made the coffees especially controversial is that in addition to traditional political donors, Clinton acted as host to foreigners and special pleaders in the listening sessions. In February 1996 Clinton met with Wang Jun, whose many businesses include an arms-trading company owned by the People...
...take away all grooming implements and you get Ira, who considered himself too mythic to bathe regularly or use his given name. Einhorn means "one horn," so he called himself the Unicorn. When it wasn't fair maidens he was after, it was the company of nags like Rubin, Hoffman and Allen Ginsberg. He ingested enough drugs to kill a whale. He organized be-ins. He called himself a planetary enzyme and "sort of smelled like a hoagie with onions all the time," as a friend puts it. For Philadelphia, a social and political backwater in which consciousness raising...
...conned the French villagers into believing. Nor was he a British writer who had settled in remotest France for quiet inspiration. He was an American fugitive named Ira Einhorn, a man who had risen to fame during the late 1960s and early 1970s as a counterculture guru. Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman were friends, logically enough. But so was an unlikely battalion of bluebloods, millionaires and corporate executives, many of them so charmed by Einhorn's New Age vision that they stood by him even after his arrest for a murder so grisly an entire city had gasped...
...from Hibbing, Minn., drawing from Robert Johnson, Blind Lemon Jefferson and Woody Guthrie, busting with old blues, freshly learned folk songs and rock-fueled new ideas he was on the verge of unleashing. Then the folk-rock mystery rebel of the '70s, releasing insurgent basement tapes, performing benefits for Rubin ("Hurricane") Carter (a convicted murderer whose guilt he questioned). And then the fading master of the '80s, toying with gospel-inspired backup singers, collaborating with playwrights like Sam Shepard, embracing a born-again evangelistic tone, losing some of his edge, his vibrant outsider insolence...