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...Senate aides say, are smaller fish, mostly monks and nuns at a Buddhist temple who gave the DNC money after a notorious fund-raiser attended by Gore. Investigators are betting they acted as "straw donors" (foils) for wealthy foreign contributors. Meanwhile, some big fish may be falling. Rep. Gerald Solomon, chairman of the House Rules Committee, said Wednesday he has government intercepts that indicate John Huang "committed economic espionage" by passing trade secrets to his former employer, Lippo Group, while he worked in the Commerce department. And though the announcement may itself be a breach of federal law, Solomon...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Some 16 months after House lawmakers imposed a partial gift ban on themselves, members of a bipartisan ethics committee are considering easing the restrictions. According to New York Republican Gerald Solomon, the current ban is too inflexible and should be replaced with one which allows members to accept gifts worth up to $50, the maximum amount now allowed in the Senate. TIME's James Carney says the panel's initiative will most likely die on the vine: "It probably won't go anywhere, because the House passed this thing with a lot of self congratulation, and to back...
...groups, book clubs are invading homes, apartments and even TV studios. It's ironic. Oprah Winfrey, the woman once charged with debasing American culture through years of tacky psychodramas, has become, in a flash, the torchbearer of literacy, promoting such solidly challenging fare as Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon along with such worthy popular entertainments as Wally Lamb's She's Come Undone. Her book-club selections are instant megasellers, even when, like The Book of Ruth by Jane Hamilton, they have fallen into virtual obscurity. The result for publishers has been happy confusion. The lucky books are rushed...
...fact commonly performed. The recantation may have given Republicans the belief they could ram an unedited bill through the White House. "We need to pass this bill again and give it to the president, give him another chance to do the right thing," said Rules Committee Chairman Gerald Solomon during pre-vote hearings, "because the only reason he vetoed it was because of those lies by Ron Fitzsimmons." Republican Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott said after the House vote he did not yet have enough votes in the Senate to override Clinton's promised veto. But if Fitzsimmons' admission...
BORN. To NANCY KERRIGAN, 27, ex-Olympian figure skater, and JERRY SOLOMON, 42, her husband-manager; their first child, Matthew; in Boston...