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...recent weeks a former high-ranking Dole moneyman received the largest penalty ever connected to an illegal political contribution. On Oct. 23 a federal judge in Boston hit businessman Simon Fireman, 71, former vice chairman of Dole's campaign finance committee, with a fine of more than $1 million and six months of house arrest (in his luxury high-rise). Fireman's Massachusetts-based company, Aqua-Leisure Industries, which distributes pool toys and swimming goggles, was fined $5 million. His crime? Making $120,000 in illegal political contributions to individual candidates and the Republican National Committee, including...
With enough expensively soiled laundry for a dozen racy novels, Sally Bedell Smith's savvy unauthorized biography, Reflected Glory (Simon & Schuster; 559 pages; $30), reads as if it had written itself. That, of course, is a hard-earned illusion. The former New York Times reporter and author of a book about Paley has dredged decades of letters, memoirs, social histories and newspaper clippings. She has talked to hundreds of Pamela watchers and has had the benefit of reading Christopher Ogden's Life of the Party, a 1994 biography based on taped interviews Harriman gave Ogden and then prevented him from...
Durbin put himself through school after his father died of lung cancer, giving him working-class roots and a chance to highlight his opponent's millionaire status. After 13 years in Congress and an endorsement from retiring Senator Paul Simon, Durbin is the favorite...
Balanoff is hopeful that in this traditionally Democratic district--it has voted for Bill Clinton, Paul Simon and Carol Moseley-Braun--a Republican Congressman is an anomaly. He blames Jerry Weller's victory in 1994--by 34,000 votes--on the 68,000 Democrats who didn't bother going to the polls. Balanoff does offer a choice: he wants to balance the budget by cutting "corporate welfare," not funds for Medicare or education...
...Brown, R-Colo. William S. Cohen, R-Maine Bob Dole, R-Kans. Jim Exon, D-Neb. Mark O. Hatfield, R-Ore. Howell Heflin, D-Ala. J. Bennett Johnston, D-La. Nancy Landon Kassebaum, R-Kans. Sam Nunn, D-Ga. Claiborne Pell, D-R.I. David Pryor, D-Ark. Paul Simon, D-Ill. Alan K. Simpson...