Word: targetting
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...discovering that being on her own has downsides she didn't have to worry about when she was the wife of a record mogul. Carey became a tabloid target earlier this year when she accompanied Q-Tip to a New York City nightclub. One columnist wrote that they were dating and that Carey was spending her time partying with gangsta rappers. Neither item was true. A few weeks later, however, the board of a luxury co-op building turned down her application to buy an apartment. "It was ridiculous," Carey says. "There were rumors and lies about me being...
WASHINGTON: Storm clouds are gathering for Al Gore. After the fundraiser in the temple and phone calls in the White House, the focus is on one of his top aides and money-raisers, Peter Knight. TIME reports that Knight is the target of a Justice Department investigation over his Clinton-Gore ?96 campaign activities. Although Janet Reno is refusing to turn over the investigation to an independent counsel, Justice is probing Knight's connections to a Massachusetts manufacturer that won $33 million in contracts and breaks from the Clinton Administration ? while raising $132,000 for the President and his party...
...wealth could offer her. In her later years, she finally got a court order against one of her most persistent stalkers. Her son John has a permanent blockade outside his apartment so that photographers have to stay a humane distance away as he and his wife, herself a constant target, come...
...drug-law reform. In 1994 he began funding the Lindesmith Center. Its director, Ethan Nadelmann, campaigns for an end to the so-called war on drugs and advocates sweeping drug-policy reforms. Soros has committed at least $15 million to Lindesmith and other groups. Last fall he became a target of the zero-tolerance lobby after contributing $1 million to help pass state referendums in California and Arizona to legalize the medical use of such drugs as marijuana. Critics of the new marijuana laws argued they were stalking horses for legalization. Califano blamed Soros for underwriting crucial television advertising that...
That statement, from an interview published just last week, is now tragic, and piercingly sour. In trying to be a woman, she remained a target. Because of the hungry economics of voyeurism, her sons have no mother. At 36, of fame and fatal injuries, Lady Diana Spencer is dead...