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With money flowing in from Graceland, EPE could afford to turn its attention to a thornier problem: controlling Elvis' name and likeness. Earnest collectors of Elvisabilia remember the late '70s and early '80s as a woeful time when shoddy gewgaws--Elvis toenail clippers, vials of "Elvis Presley's Sweat"--were sold with impunity and by companies that paid no licensing fees to EPE. At issue was what is known as "rights of descendability of publicity"--legalese for the ability of a famous person to control the use of his or her name and likeness. Existing law, while not entirely clear...
...already complicated Whitewater investigation got even thornier when independent counsel Kenneth Starr, appointed by a judicial panel to probe the propriety of the Clintons' financial affairs, announced the hiring of an ethics counsel to watch over the integrity of his own legal work. Complaints about Starr's past Republican partisanship and the objectivity of the judges who picked him prompted him to hire Samuel Dash as a watchdog. Dash is the former chief counsel to the Senate Watergate Committee and an exemplar of Democratic probity...
...suit promises to become another p.r. headache for the RTC, which has already come under scrutiny for leaks involving Madison Guaranty Savings & Loan, the Arkansas thrift at the center of the Whitewater affair. And it will get thornier if six other fence sitters join the plaintiffs. One of these, L. Jean Lewis, prepared criminal referrals on Madison that mentioned President Clinton...
...plainspoken. The fictional TV critics of Clinton's health-care plan legitimized the frustration many Americans feel when they try to make sense of the debate over the intricacies of health care. Now Harry and Louise have been quietly shelved, the victims of a deal involving one of the thornier issues in the battle. In what was probably one of his last acts as chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, Dan Rostenkowski and the fictitious couple's sponsor, the Health Insurance Association of America, agreed to soften one of the planks in the Clinton plan, a concept called...
...still are: Was any money from Madison Guaranty improperly funneled into Governor Clinton's campaigns, or into the Clintons' pockets? And did the Governor repay with political favors to the S&L? But any attempt to answer quickly leads into a tangled financial-political underbrush, which seems to get thornier every day. Some new problems...