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Also named in the suit are luminaries in the Democratic Party firmament: attorneys Clark Clifford and Paul Warnke. Such Washington power brokers were the company of choice for Pamela Harriman. (In fact, White House counsel Lloyd Cutler signed on as her adviser after the suit was filed.) President Clinton once called her "the first lady of the Democratic Party." Indeed, her house and her parties were a haven for Democratic loyalists during the Reagan-Bush epoch. Over the years, she raised more than $12 million for Democratic candidates. Clifford, 87, whose name was muddied by the Bank of Credit...
...Department charges. Meanwhile, the FBI armed a GE whistle-blower with a hidden tape recorder last year to probe charges that the company had repeatedly ignored warnings about electrical problems that could compromise the safety of its aircraft engines. Not only has the whistle-blower brought a multimillion dollar suit against GE (the company calls the suit "frivolous and outrageous"), but the Justice Department is considering whether to bring its own charges as well...
That finding has not prevented angry Democratic and Republican Governors from demanding that Washington pay up. Lawton Chiles of Florida has already filed suit in a Miami federal court against the U.S. Government for "its continuing failure to enforce or rationally administer its own immigration laws since 1980." The suit asks for $1.5 billion in compensation. "So far, all we've got is a lot of hand wringing," says Chiles. Governors in Texas, Arizona and California are taking Washington to court as well...
Ferreira, Nikhoul, and a group of Cambridge youths who saw Pasqualino all described him as short and fat with thinning brown hair, attired in a business suit...
...extremely important in popularity contests like elections, Roosevelt had the unshakeable advantage. There are those who believe that Richard M. Nixon would have beaten John F. Kennedy '40 in 1960 were it not for one televised debate. Those who watched Nixon's five o' clock shadow and glowingly pale suit with horror can sympathize with the causes of Bachrach and Barrett...