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...firesale of a Black Square should be scandal enough. But a host of other questions arise. There is, for instance, the question of the "other Maleviches." The bank's collection was formed in secrecy and has never been fully exhibited. But art historians who helped build it say it included two other Malevich paintings, realist portraits dating from the artist's last years, and a drawing called The Reapers. They say the bank also acquired an object resembling an Architecton, Malevich's name for his skyscraper-like sculptures. If authentic, the Architecton would be significant-none has ever been offered...
Instead, Clinton's ex-presidency is shaping up to be a shriveled version of his presidency. As he copes with a new crop of scandals--the $190,000 worth of going-away gifts, the $800,000-a-year midtown-Manhattan office suite he wanted to rent, the 177 last-minute clemencies he granted and, above all, the one he handed to fugitive billionaire Marc Rich--Clinton's new life feels like the old one, minus the power and the pulpit and the retinue of aides. His war room is a half-furnished Dutch Colonial in the New York suburbs...
...said about him--and puts him once again in the sights of a federal prosecutor, this time U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White of New York. Not only are there calls to haul him before Congress, but also they are coming from fellow Democrats who defended him through every past scandal. This time, for the first time, he is out on the cliff, alone...
...even dragging down Democratic fund raising, the one area in which he always came through. In Florida, where Democrats say they will need at least $12 million to defeat Governor Jeb Bush in 2002, a moneyman told TIME that normally dependable givers are citing Clinton's latest scandal, with its allegation that he traded pardons for campaign cash, when they refuse to put pen to check...
...Clinton performance? Psychological compulsion, some sad residue of a fatherless boyhood? When the nation's president, its authority figure, had no authority figures himself, moral difficulties may arise. Or is this a case merely of no-holds-barred Elmer Gantry sleaze? No one knows where the bottom of the scandal is, but I wish that Clinton's loyalists would give up the line that anyone who is, shall we say, bemused by this spectacle is a "Clinton-hater" and "Clinton-basher." When we think about the messy story of Bill Clinton and the American people who entrusted the presidency...