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...families whose children are not truly disabled. "The standards are vague and easily met," says Representative Jim McCrery, a Louisiana Republican and supporter of the new rules. "Some people regard it as just a super welfare program." The assault on children's SSI began three years ago, when a spate of news reports carried charges that parents were coaching children to act out mental disabilities. Among these was a 1994 story on ABC's PrimeTime Live titled "Crazy Checks," which offered anecdotal evidence of cheating in what it called "a government program gone haywire." In time the charges were largely...
...like a scene from a bad Washington movie. Squads of investigators are prowling the halls of Justice and the FBI, interrogating officials high and low about a recent spate of unauthorized, though unspectacular, Justice-beat leaks. Some Justice officials defend the plumbing expeditions as necessary to stem revelations of classified and investigative information. Others deride the internal probes as a panicky overreaction by mid-level officials who are making key decisions while the department's top management jobs (Deputy AG, Associate AG and Assistant AG for the criminal division) lie vacant...
Despite the spate of rumors, Tarses says she has been reassured that her job is not in jeopardy. "Basically I've been assured I'll be given time to fail," she says. That is echoed by her boss, ABC president Robert Iger. "The speculation as to whether we're happy or unhappy with her is ridiculously premature," says Iger. "She has my support. We have a very talented person in Jamie Tarses, and as far as we're concerned she's the right person for that job." Still, Tarses is realistic--or fatalistic--enough to know that such support could...
...mania has now produced a spate of books--catnip for the nostalgia connoisseur and the mogul hoping to extend his franchise line and move the vintage-cartoon cassettes off the video-store shelves. Warner Books has published Chuck Reducks, the second (after Chuck Amuck) memoir of Warner Bros.' cartoon glory years by its major double-domo, Chuck Jones. Turner Publishing, literary outlet for the owner of mgm cartoons, honors animation's wildest spirit with John Canemaker's handsome Tex Avery: The MGM Years, 1942-55. It is essentially a reprint of Pierre Lambert's original, one of four French books...
Ivan Reitman, who directed Dave, believes the spate of White House movies may be in part a kind of narcissistic reaction to the Clinton presidency: the fact that Clinton, like many of those in power in Hollywood, is an unabashed baby boomer has made the office seem more accessible. "He's just like me," Reitman says. "He's my age. He probably smoked pot. There are a lot of commonalities." "He's more available to us," agrees Bernstein, who means "available" socioculturally as well as literally. The President's proclivity for hobnobbing with show-biz folk is well known...