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...Winners DENISE RICH Refutes rumors of trading sex for her ex-husband's presidential pardon, becoming perhaps the first woman to deny bedding Clinton PHOENIX Two-week-old British calf found alive amid the foot-and-mouth slaughter sets off a nationwide flood of sympathy?and is spared DENNIS TITO The 60-year-old California financier gets the all clear for his $20 million space tour; denies he's going for the frequent-flier miles...
Much of the effort is being bankrolled by three prominent philanthropists: New York City financier George Soros; Cleveland, Ohio, insurance magnate Peter Lewis; and Phoenix, Ariz., entrepreneur John Sperling. Working together they have spent more than $15 million to promote the voter initiatives. Their consultants are scoping out Florida, Maine, Michigan, Missouri and Ohio for 2002 ballot propositions. "States are going to be the engines of reform," predicts New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson, a Republican who has pushed through two addiction-assistance bills this year. "It's still too hot to touch from a national political standpoint," he says...
...Culkin, now split from Macaulay's mother (they never married) and living in Phoenix, Ariz., won't talk about his son. But his girlfriend, reached by TIME, relates that Kit went to London to see Macaulay onstage (getting a ticket under an assumed name) and sent him a congratulatory telegram. "Thankfully I didn't see it until a week after opening," says Macaulay. "I think it's funny that he hasn't tried to make contact with me in years. The one time he tries to, it's in this very cold telegram, basically wishing me luck just because...
Arizona's Proposition 200, which passed four years ago, was a radical departure for a conservative Republican state. Before the vote, former Presidents Ford, Carter and Bush released a letter attacking it. Drug czar Barry McCaffrey flew to Phoenix and warned that it amounted to "the legalization of all drugs." But the politicians may have been out of touch with popular sentiment. Recalls political consultant Sam Vagenas, who steered the Arizona initiative: "When we asked focus groups if we were winning the war on drugs, people just laughed...
This all sounds great, but there's still one major problem. "Who's going to pay?" asks Ron Gue, president of IT consultant Phoenix Health Systems. Two months ago, McKesson shut down its bleeding Net division. Still, application service providers, which let doctors subscribe to online software services instead of investing $50,000 to $100,000 to install server computers on the premises, may well be "small practices' salvation," says Carl Dvorak, vice president at Epic Systems...