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...backchat--over the top or below the belt--that fuels the fashion biz. "It's so major!" gushes Polly Mellen, creative director of Allure. The result could be trivial if director Douglas Keeve were not also focusing on Mizrahi's gathering nerves. The low point comes when a staffer brings in a copy of Women's Wear Daily that headlines the latest from Jean-Paul Gaultier, the tallest tree in Mizrahi's particular sector of the fashion forest. Gaultier's revelation? Eskimo chic. Mizrahi throws the paper on the floor...
...House Whitewater panel played a tape of a conversation in whicha lawyer with the Resolution Trust Corp. seemed to suggest that a staffer alter her report on Madison Guaranty, the failed savings and loan owned by the Clintons' former business partner, for political purposes. Reason: the lawyer said doing so would please RTC head Jack Ryan and other senior officials. "There are answers they would be happier about, you know, because it would get them, you know, off the hook, you know, and that would be about Whitewater." Ratan says: "What the Republicans are trying to show is that where...
...such massive deregulation would encourage media firms like Disney to merge into near-monopolies. "They're taking it up in the middle of the night, when there's no one to listen to the debate, no one around to view, no one to report on it," one Democratic Senate staffer told TIME's Suneel Ratan. A similar measure has already cleared the Senate. Clinton promises a veto...
...Science should go where the research takesit," says Louis Whitsett, a Republican staffer forthe Senate Commerce, Science and TransportationCommittee. "Government should not artificiallyrestrict researchers...
...misdemeanor charges of writing a bad check on her husband's House bank account and improperly taking $7,500 from the American Friends of Turkish Women, a charity she runs. Mrs. Solarz admitted that she knew her husband's House account was overdrawn when she ordered a congressional staffer to write a check for $5,200 in 1990. She is not expected to serve jailtime. Ex-Rep. Solarz, who himself had a large number of overdrafts from the House Bank, was cleared by a task force. It was the eleventh criminal charge to emerge from the 1992 "Rubbergate" scandal...