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...BROTHER... (3/08/01) The Los Angeles Times reports that Roger Clinton, the former president's half-brother, is under investigation following allegations that he asked for $15,000 in exchange for help securing a pardon for a Little Rock restaurant owner. Philip David Young reportedly turned down Roger's offer, but was granted a pardon anyway. (None of the people Roger recommended for pardons were granted them...
...Clinton maintains he has no regrets for what he did, others have been compelled to say they are sorry for their contribution to the collateral damage: Roger Cardinal Mahony of Los Angeles, for lobbying for Clinton's pardon of a Democratic donor's drug-dealer son; Morgan Stanley chairman Philip J. Purcell, for paying six figures to hear the inaugural address of Clinton's ex-presidency. (Clinton has told friends that Purcell didn't seem to object to the standing ovation Clinton got, or the fact that he shook hands with Morgan Stanley clients for two hours afterward.) UBS Warburg...
...unlike Robert Philip Hanssen, the alleged spy whose double life surely required even greater measures of deception, he wasn't a two-faced hypocrite. He didn't boast about being moral or a family man or that he was particularly loyal. What's so infuriating about Hanssen - apart, of course, from the simple fact that he was a traitor - is the fact that he was so sanctimonious about his patriotism, his faith and his family. Spying was his other family...
Later that day, the New Hampshire Attorney General Philip McLaughlin denied the Globe's report, stating, "Investigators do not hold the belief attributed to them in the Globe story... No responsible and knowledgeable law enforcement official would provide the Globe with the information it attributed to official anonymous sources...
...grandfather and community elder in Kirinyaga, he is conscious of the legacy he will leave. "In some small way," he says, "we want to contribute to Kenya's future. The children of today are the leaders of tomorrow." Sitting in the Ngata dining room with his arm around Philip, a beaming six-year-old who has just been accepted into the home, Kariuki says, "Any one of these kids could be a teacher, a doctor or the future President--if we just give them hope." It will be their eventual success that will give Kenya's business community some prospect...