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...year later, the economy has a charley horse, the tax cut they deplored is the centerpiece of the new President's budget, Alan Greenspan has blessed it, and every argument the Democrats make gets drowned out by that Other Story, the presidency that will not end, the scandal that will not die. Internal Republican polls last week showed Bush had little reason to fear that the Clinton pardon debacle would overshadow his big budget road show. Bush's message was getting through, pollsters found; the ones being drowned out were the Democrats. The power sharing they expected after a close...
...like her pal Denise Rich before her, Dozoretz pleaded the Fifth Amendment, and with that, the pardon scandal was moving out of the familiar theatrics of the Congress to the deadly quiet, far more serious precincts of the Southern District of New York, where prosecutor Mary Jo White was reported to be in contact with Denise Rich about finding out what she knew...
...21st work of fiction, Aiding and Abetting (Doubleday; 166 pages; $21), around a matter of fact: the 1974 disappearance of the seventh Earl of Lucan, who was subsequently charged with bludgeoning his children's nanny to death in a botched attempt to murder his estranged wife. Questions about this scandal have echoed in the British press ever since. Was Lord Lucan guilty? Is he still alive? If so, who helped him escape, and who has been aiding and abetting the fugitive's life in hiding ever since...
...involves photographing a known spy handler's mail to look for hints of whom he is running. Leads, like the false return addresses Hanssen used, trigger an investigation. The FBI's failure to use mail cover might have killed another man's career, but nobody surfs the crest of scandal like Freeh. By the time he was done with his would-be minders on the Hill last Wednesday, they were jockeying to throw money at him. Before Senators could focus on any problems, Freeh was selling them the supposed solution: more polygraphs, compartmentalization and--of course--money. "[The FBI] just...
...following decade the outraged (and self-serving) newspaper reactions to the Fatty Arbuckle scandal, the death of Wallace Reid and the murder of William Desmond Taylor prompted fears in Hollywood that there would be more legislation, and setting up the Hayes office was an attempt to make sure that didn't happen...