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...when the White House drama was just a glimmer in the eyes of NBC's programming execs, ROB LOWE, a.k.a. deputy communications director Sam Seaborn, was expected to be the biggest draw as the resident fox in chief. Now--crisis in the situation room, Sir!--Lowe is making like Jim Jeffords and ditching the party. "As much as it hurts to admit it, it has been increasingly clear for quite a while that there was no longer a place for Sam Seaborn on The West Wing," he said. Reports say one reason Lowe is leaving next spring...
Suzanne Berger's husband Jim was memorialized in the New York Times under the headline FAN OF THE BOSS. She too got a call. "He said, 'I want to respect your privacy, but I just want you to know that I was very touched, and I want to know more about your husband,'" she recalls. "He wanted to hear Jim's story, so I told...
Universities across the U.S. are reporting a sharp increase in requests for financial aid. At Arizona State, students qualifying for need-based loans are up 30% over the past two years. "There is a lot of uncertainty due to the loss of value in families' assets," says Jim Molloy, associate director of financial aid at Notre Dame, where spending on need-based financial aid is up 10%. Mark Evans, director of financial aid at Kent State, reports that requests for additional aid because of "special circumstances" have risen...
House Energy and Commerce Committee spokesman Ken Johnson confirmed the sales. Chairman Billy Tauzin, who is leading an investigation of ImClone with Representative Jim Greenwood, says the timing deepens suspicions of illegal insider trading. "Everyone but the mailroom boy was dumping stock," Tauzin told TIME. "You can't tell me they all suddenly had a hunch to sell...
...British Prime Minister Tony Blair to prepare a warning for the I.R.A. and other armed groups this week. O'Neill's apology was a clever way of heading off some of that pressure, and some saw it as just a P.R. ploy. "I am very skeptical and cynical," said Jim Dixon, who was severely wounded in a bombing in 1987 that killed 11 people. Others think it is more than a stunt. Tom Donnelly, whose sister died in a bombing 30 years ago, welcomed the expression of regret because he thinks it shows "the I.R.A. are working toward closure...