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...shattering any doubt that Clinton's pardons were shaped like boomerangs was the news, broken by the newspaper of record in the Clinton era, the National Enquirer, that Hillary's brother Hugh Rodham had made $400,000 for helping broker a commutation for a Los Angeles drug dealer and a pardon for a Florida swindler. That changed everything. "The brother showed up on the scene and put her right in the middle of it," says an aide to the House Democratic leadership. Suddenly, talk of a Clinton restoration to the White House seemed more far-fetched than ever...
...York to explain what she knew and when she knew it as quickly as possible last week. On Thursday she gave what is becoming her trademark, smile-through-adversity press conference. In a 45-minute session, Clinton explained that she first heard about Rodham's involvement as a pardon broker two weeks ago, when reporters began to make "inquiries of a vague nature." But she said she did not get "specific information" until Feb. 19, when she was told while watching a movie in a theater. She said she did not tell her husband until early the next morning "because...
This time Clinton poses for photos and collects a Kyrgyzstani wooden doll from the delegation and business cards from the New Yorkers. In the elevator she hands the cards to an aide. "Be sure they go into our central data bank," she orders. Particularly the broker. "I'm looking for New Yorkers who understand how damaging a large tax cut would...
Just ask Charles Schwab. Since November, the online broker has been trying to find ways to trim costs but not staff in the wake of last quarter's 27% drop in earnings. In late November, the company announced a hiring freeze, followed by discretionary spending controls and salary reductions--50% for co-CEOs and 5% to 20% for more than 700 managers. Then in mid-January, Schwab said it would pay first-quarter bonuses in stock, not cash. And just last week, the company told roughly half its 2,600 "nonessential" employees--those not involved in customer support--to take...
...level up from buyers like Samnang are the brokers who collect large orders from buyers and arrange for the gun shipments. Chay, a broker in his early 30s, seems nervous when we meet just after dawn in the urine-redolent upper room of a bar 15 minutes outside Bangkok. A heavily built Thai, Chay fidgets a lot, looking down at his hands. His discomfort may be caused by his boss who is sitting at another table, an obese, balding man in his 50s who scowls behind thick, gold-rimmed glasses and cigar smoke...