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Outside the President's immediate family and staff, Betsey Wright is probably Bill Clinton's most passionate defender. As a top aide in Arkansas and on the campaign trail, she was the chief squelcher of controversy and scandal. But now her peculiar combination of roles -- confidant, hatchet woman and business lobbyist -- is proving to be a potential hazard for the Administration. Just last week Wright had to disavow a New Yorker article that quoted her suggesting that Hillary Rodham Clinton had plans to run for the presidency. While most people in Washington know enough to take some of her statements...
...Paula Jones' sexual-harassment charges against Clinton gathered steam last month, Wright sipped Diet Coke in her sunlit office a few blocks from the White House and calmly defended him once again. The former chief of staff to the Governor of Arkansas has gone through a transformation since the campaign. Gone are the sweatshirt and slacks. The new Wright can afford an expensive haircut and smart, stylish dresses. Still the same, however, is her fierce loyalty to her old boss. "For 10 years," she says, with a flinty, blue-eyed gaze, "I doubt Bill Clinton was ever gone 15 minutes...
...Texas-born Wright's major contribution to Clinton's election was stopping negative stories about the candidate. She made some notable gaffes, however, including issuing a premature denial that Clinton had ever used cocaine -- answering the question before it was even asked. During the spring and summer of 1992, she coined the unseemly phrase "bimbo eruptions" to describe the targets of her work. Wright hired San Francisco private detective Jack Palladino at a reported cost of more than $100,000 to investigate women who were making claims about relationships with Clinton. So protective of Clinton was Wright during the campaign...
Four years later, Waters' decision to leave Pink Floyd triggered a battle over the legal rights to the group's name. Waters lost, and Gilmour, keyboardist Rick Wright and drummer Nick Mason carried on as Pink Floyd and released 1987's A Momentary Lapse of Reason, an album that managed to rehash the group's trademark sound. Waters, who feels betrayed by his old mates, still holds a grudge. Gilmour is more conciliatory. A sense of wounded wistfulness crops up repeatedly in The Division Bell. "So I open my door to my enemies," Gilmour laments on Lost for Words...
EDITORIAL FINANCE: Genevieve Christy (Manager); Carl Harmon, Morgan Krug (Domestic); Camille Sanabria, Aston Wright (News Service); Linda D. Vartoogian, Wayne Chun (Pictures...