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...Clintons' most loyal supporters, giving $70,000 in soft money to Hillary's Senate race. It was Denise who held a morale-boosting, $4 million Democratic fund-raiser starring Bill Clinton at her Fifth Avenue apartment in September 1998, one of his first appearances after the release of the Starr report. But now the spotlight on Denise may have become too hot; late last week she backed out of a welcome-home party for former HUD Secretary Andrew Cuomo, a potential New York gubernatorial candidate...
Despite solid performances from Stiles and Thomas, the side characters in "Save the Last Dance" nearly steal it. Kerry Washington, who plays a black classmate at Sara's new school who befriends her, delivers an involving speech about her conflicted feeling about interracial dating. And Fredro Starr (who also performs the movie's theme song, "Shining Through," with Jill Scott, on the soundtrack) is convincing in a Tupac Shakur-ish role as a thug-life-livin', low-riding gangsta who nearly pulls Derek into a life of crime...
...Bart Starr, Packers...
...presidency. But on Saturday, issuing a slew of pardons, Clinton took a major swipe at all the independent counsels who had dogged him and his cabinet. Former HUD secretary Henry Cisneros and his onetime mistress were pardoned. Several figures who were squeezed by longtime Whitewater independent counsel Kenneth Starr, Ray's predecessor - Steve Smith, Robert Palmer, Chris Wade and Susan McDougal - were given dispensation...
...that Clinton has now pardoned or commuted the sentence of each and every individual convicted by Independent Counsel Donald Smaltz, who in 1994 was appointed to lead the investigation in former agriculture secretary Mike Espy, and whose deputy was Ray until Ray took over from Kenneth Starr. Smaltz's investigation of Espy was, even more than any of the independent counsel probes, widely criticized for being overzealous. His 34-count indictment of Espy for allegedly accepting illegal gifts and gratuities ended in acquittal. And those he gathered in his net along the way - lobbyist James Lake, Espy aide Ron Blackley...