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...public event. The Clinton Administration, after all, has fine-tuned an Oprah-style culture of public emoting. And emote they did. Mom shopped for supplies with Chelsea; Bill packed and then carried boxes. Last Wednesday, as Clinton was working on answers for questions on the tobacco settlement, spokesman Mike McCurry told him to prep for Chelsea questions as well. The President winced and asked, "Do I have to?" Then Al Gore asked, "So, are you doing O.K.?" Clinton replied, "I'm trying...
...Clinton team is keeping the champagne corked because the news is bad news for them too: a case that had been edging toward a settlement for months is now off the rails and careering toward a trial. The lawyers quit because Jones, with the encouragement of her influential "friend and adviser," a glamorous California conservative commentator named Susan Carpenter-McMillan, rejected an apparent offer of $700,000 and a vaguely worded statement from Clinton that Jones did nothing improper. While it's not clear at all that Jones can win, the President has even more to lose, in standing...
...insurance companies paying for Clinton's defense dropped out, while the other may do the same. For months White House officials hoped that Clinton, who says he doesn't remember meeting Jones and denies the sexual-harassment allegations, could mitigate the embarrassment of a cash settlement by having his insurers write the check. But paying out of his own pocket would seem a clearer admission of guilt...
...believe the majority of Americans think the UPS strike settlement is a victory for the American worker and a defeat for corporate greed [BUSINESS, Sept. 1]. As a small-business owner, I can assure you the winner is not the American worker. The stockholders of UPS will make sure that the company's return on investment is not hurt and will do so by raising prices and reducing costs. The losers will be all of us, since we will pay more for the freight on practically everything we buy. The losers are also those UPS workers who will be laid...
...severe case of inner-Beltway butterflies, causing him to throw in the towel against Jesse Helms. The President himself got an attack of parental nerves as Chelsea left for Stanford; so distraught was her dad that he had to lean on something extremely soft ? like the tobacco settlement...