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...demonstrators flash signs that include MCAULIFFE--CORPORATE PIMP. They're chanting "Shame on you" as the high rollers limo in. It's enough of a commotion that no one sees three nattily attired youngsters approach the door. That would be Mark and comrades Juliette Beck, 29, and Alli Starr, 32. With them is another youngster, Doris (Granny D) Haddock, 90, who walked clear across the country last year in the name of campaign reform. All four get flagged, but three scam their way in. Dan Quayle Dad then flashes his press pass; Starr hooks...
...gang decides not to shout obscenities or throw food, because they'll be dragged out by their ears and dismissed as kooks. Mark will try to corner McAuliffe; Starr and Beck will leaflet and try gentle persuasion. But Granny gets to McAuliffe before Mark can and says, "Soft money...
...should have come as no surprise to independent counsel ROBERT RAY that his decision to convene a new grand jury in the MONICA LEWINSKY case stirred controversy as it leaked out last week. KENNETH STARR's successor had previously had a private lesson in just how polarizing the sex-and-cover-up probe remains 19 months after BILL CLINTON was acquitted of impeachment charges. Legal sources tell TIME that Ray had trouble finding 23 grand jurors who could objectively review evidence of criminal conduct by the President. African Americans, among Clinton's biggest fans, were most reluctant to serve...
...question of whether to indict Clinton began in 1999, after his acquittal in the Senate. In internal discussions led by Starr, some of his prosecutors noted the difficulty of convicting a popular President, despite what they saw as strong evidence at least of perjury in the PAULA JONES sexual-harassment suit. Others argued against second-guessing a jury and urged pursuing the case on its merits...
After a dozen years of island life on Maui, Tama Starr decided to return to New York City in 1982 to join the family business, which her grandfather had founded: Artkraft Strauss, known for its innovative Times Square signs--and the giant ball it lowered each New Year's Eve. She hoped to help her father, who had suffered a heart attack shortly after inheriting the business, to develop the company so it could thrive in the coming century. She knew it wouldn't be easy: her dad was irascible, and the place was "crawling with relatives...