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...sure that classified documents are handled strictly by the book. He also asked CIA Director John Deutch and other highly placed members of the intelligence community to review their procedures for distribution of classified materials, in order to reduce access to them. "Here we go again," says TIME's Bruce Nelan. "No administration ever learns that you cannot find leakers. Out of sheer frustration, they bring on the FBI, but never find out who is talking, and always end up looking like fools." Besides, says Nelan, the issue is not blown secrets or damaged intelligence assets. "Government officials always complain...
Higher was also the objective of the many stargazers who attended the first week's events and collected celebrities like pins: Simpson, David Hasselhoff, Bruce and Demi, Arnold, Ali, Chelsea--who, bless her heart, went to everything--and her parents. Royalty mixed with Olympian and, in the case of Kuwaiti swimmer S.A.B.S. Sultan Alotaibi, who finished 37th out of 37 in the 200-m individual medley, were one and the same. Perhaps the most interesting encounter occurred at the Olympic Village, when U.S. team handball circle runner Dave DeGraaf was followed into the lavatory by men in suits. "Mr. President...
...possibility that Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr could call for a retrial on those charges. What the bankers can not be retried for is the charge that they conspired to conceal from the IRS $52,500 in cash withdrawals drawn from the Clinton gubernatorial campaign coffers. White House deputy counsel Bruce Lindsey had been named an unindicted co-conspirator in that alleged conspiracy. News of the verdict had the Clinton camp predicting that the Whitewater scandal would fade from the election-year radar screens. "It takes one more issue off the table for Republicans who think this is an important matter...
...home," says novelist and longtime friend Josh Greenfeld, "Mario is the Godfather." The author's pals complement his deep family relationships. The group, which includes Vogel, Catch-22 author Heller and novelist and playwright Bruce Jay Friedman, gets together for a boys-only lunch every month. Friedman recalls encountering Puzo's writing when he hired him as an assistant editor for the adventure magazines Male and Men. "You knew that he was a natural and a master storyteller," says Friedman. "I'm just disappointed that I didn't become his agent." Plans for a new book are already under...
...that for almost two decades, from the late '40s to the mid-'60s, Lewis was a virtually unprecedented force in American popular culture. As nightclub performers, the anarchic Martin and Lewis were a cutting-edge act, their eagerness to violate convention paving the way for the likes of Lenny Bruce and Woody Allen (who, according to Levy, asked Lewis to direct both Take the Money and Run and Bananas), Steve Martin and, of course, Jim Carrey. As a solo act, Lewis has at various times been the highest-paid performer in film, on television and on Broadway. Levy, a film...