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MARRIED. GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS, 40, Clinton adviser turned ABC pundit, to actress ALEXANDRA WENTWORTH, 36; at a Greek Orthodox church in New York City. Absent among the guests: the groom's former boss, with whom Stephanopoulos fell out after the Monica Lewinsky scandal...
...press its case, the herbal industry turned to Bush allies. Metabolife International--which makes Metabolife 356, the best-selling herbal diet product in America--hired a San Antonio law firm headed by some of Bush's closest political associates, including Jeff Wentworth, a powerful state senator. (In Texas it is legal for a sitting state senator to represent clients before a state agency.) Wentworth arranged a July 2, 1998, meeting between Metabolife president Michael Ellis and Archer. Ellis says he called for a "dialogue" with his industry in place of the tough regulatory stand--a position being quietly urged...
...limits, he told the industry task force that he wanted to allow no more than 10 mg a serving and 40 mg a day. The industry said those restrictions would wipe its products off the market. The task force asked for an audience with Archer. On Oct. 2, Ellis, Wentworth and Jonas contributed a total of $10,000 to Bush's re-election campaign, followed three days later by $5,000 from another Metabolife official, Michael Blevins. According to Ellis' spokesman, Jonas sought the money as co-chairman of a fund raiser for Bush...
...Metabolife, contributed $25,000 to the Bush gubernatorial campaign. Loeffler, a mentor for Bush, has given $141,000 to his gubernatorial races and raised at least $100,000 for his presidential bid. He did not return phone calls seeking comment. Nor did his partner Jonas. For his part, Wentworth told TIME, "I'm not aware of any coordinating of contributions to get a meeting with Dr. Archer." (Months later, after news reports that Ellis and Blevins had been convicted years earlier of drug-related offenses totally unconnected to their work in the herbal industry, the Bush campaign returned their donations...
Where was Bush during these negotiations? According to copies of his calendar, he met with Archer in mid-July and mid-September--key junctures in the ephedrine negotiations. He twice saw Wentworth at political events during this period. But a spokesman in the Governor's office said Bush did not get involved in Archer's deliberations and had no discussions with Metabolife's lawyers about ephedrine. Wentworth says he never raised the issue with Bush...