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...just unseemly, and the overall effect is oddly comforting. If nothing else, the tapes prove that the most powerful nation on earth can operate on autopilot while its President chases campaign money. What they don't appear to do so far is show whether the Democratic Party had a scheme to channel foreign cash into campaign '96, and if so, whether Clinton...
Wichita, Kans. A NOBLE SCHEME TAKES ROOT IN A HUMBLE PART OF TOWN...
...shared by many of the teachers Reynolds recruited for what is now called the Dodge-Edison School. Most are what Reynolds refers to as "flagship educators"--the best of the old system and some of the brightest prospects emerging from graduate school. He lured them with a unique scheme: teachers in small clusters would be given 90 minutes a day of development time; $10,000 in "dream money" to spend on everything from books to software programs and from camping trips to birthday parties; plus access to an electronics bonanza of laptop computers, classroom phones, voice mail, television sets, vcrs...
...body matter to pass the genetic tests, and Vincent "becomes" Jerome Morrow, admitted to the ranks of the Gattaca elite. Jerome's brilliant record qualifies him to lead a mission to one of Jupiter's moons, attracting the amorous interest of a fellow Gattacan, Irene (Uma Thurman). But the scheme hits some very rough waters when a mission director is murdered and an eyelash found near the crime scene is traced to the In-Valid Vincent Freeman...
...widening fund-raising investigation that threatens to topple current Teamster president Ron Carey has brought Hoffa closer than ever to reviving the family dynasty. Carey has spent time before a federal grand jury investigating an illegal scheme to divert union money to his campaign during his 1996 re-election bid, in which Hoffa was narrowly defeated. And it's far from certain that Carey will even be allowed to participate in the rerun election scheduled to begin in January. Hoffa, meanwhile, is out campaigning, raising money, plugging a reformist platform and decrying what he describes as the "biggest scandal...