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Chicken king DON TYSON, long one of independent counsel DONALD SMALTZ's prime targets in the investigation of former Agriculture Secretary MIKE ESPY, has been thrown a bone. Summoned before a grand jury last week, Tyson, the retired chairman of Tyson Foods, was planning to take the Fifth when he was corralled in the hallway and offered immunity by Smaltz's team. It's a deal, replied the astonished Tyson. For two days he testified about his few contacts with Espy and the small favors, like tickets to a Dallas Cowboys playoff game, he provided for him. Smaltz...
Blaine should know. In the past few years he has sprung his deadpan, charismatic sleight-of-hand in hip hangouts on both coasts, impressing some of the biggest names in show business--including Jack Nicholson, Arnold Schwarzenegger, David Geffen, Mike Tyson and Madonna. Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio have befriended him. At a party after the Grammys this year, Blaine sidled up to hot young singer Fiona Apple; today they are a couple. "David's magic reduces you to being three years old," says Apple, "that complete wonderment with the world...
...letterhead or other identifying characteristics. Just the date and your initials." Writes Reich: "Now I have my own loop." But of course, he didn't really. At one point, Reich describes waiting in a small anteroom outside the Oval Office with economic advisers Robert Rubin, Laura D'Andrea Tyson and Gene Sperling, only to learn from CNN that Clinton had fired chief of staff Mack McLarty. "Our distress has nothing to do with the merits of the decision...What's so galling is that the decisions were made without any of us having a clue...At this moment...
Almost every senior Clinton aide at first opposed the plan, which was championed by Dick Morris. Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin and National Economic Council chief Laura Tyson were worried that it would unleash a tax-cutting war with Bob Dole and help mainly families of those who would go to college anyway. Lawrence Gladieux, an analyst at the College Board, agrees. "It is tax relief, but it's not effective in closing gaps in educational opportunity," he says. Sensitive to that charge, Clinton at the last minute tacked on a substantial increase in Pell grants, which pay college costs...
...Rams (20-9) had their chances to win in regulation. But Tyson Wheeler's leaner bounced off, and Michael Andersen missed the follow before the buzzer...