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Trustees," includes donations from 57 individuals, couples, or other entities. IRS reports reviewed by the Sun show that the foundations at this level have generally given or pledged $1 million or more. The Wasserman Foundation of Los Angeles, founded by movie mogul Lew Wasserman, gave the Clinton library $3 million. The Roy and Christine Sturgis Charitable Trust pledged $4 million. The Anheuser-Busch Foundation has given $200,000 annually for the last several years as part of what appears to be a $1 million pledge.The Annenberg Foundation also gave $1 million. The Saudi royal family and the governments of Dubai, Kuwait, and...

OCTOBER 3--Meet Louis Beshara and his wife, Gloria Rodriguez. The Florida couple are at the heart of the drug scandal now enveloping radio superstar Rush Limbaugh. Investigators allege that the duo illegally sold hundreds of thousands of prescription painkillers from a Palm Beach-area pharmacy they owned. According to a Palm Beach County Sheriff's search warrant affidavit, Beshara provided Hydrocodone, the powerful and addictive painkiller, to middlemen drug dealers like Joseph Coppola who then resold the pills to users. It has been reported that Limbaugh scored some of the Beshara pills via Wilma Cline, a former maid at the radio star's...

Sept. 11: US Nice Guy says 'enough' By Martin Walker UPI Chief International Correspondent From the International Desk Published 9/7/2002 3:21 PM View printer-friendly version (Part of UPI's Special Package on Sept. 11) MUNICH (UPI) -- There is a theory in the Arab world, frequently aired on the TV discussion shows of Qatar's Al-Jazeera news channel, that the real impact of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 was less the 3,000 dead than the devastation wreaked on the American and broader Western economy. In this grisly arithmetic of terror, the $7 trillion knocked off the value of American stocks, the...

Of the many Afghans whose lives were blighted by the Taliban, there are few victims more pathetic than the likes of Mohammed Khatib. He survives – just about – by farming, of a kind that has scarcely changed in centuries. Oxen pull his plough, a wooden plank studded with nails. He has to give more than two-thirds of his harvest to the owner of the land he farms and if there are floods or drought he may not be able to support his family. It was always a meagre existence, but then the Taliban reduced him to complete destitution. "They ...

Americans Are Confused by Success By JOHN CUNNIFF NEW YORK (AP) -- There are many confused Americans these days, deeply concerned and puzzled about why so much that they see as good is so roundly denounced as bad for their economic health. Why, they ask, should government be so critical of the most successful company of our times, the longest and most vigorous economic expansion in at least a century, and the most bullish stock market in history? The explanations are in the details, or at least in how the details are viewed. In the case against Microsoft Corp. (NasdaqNM:MSFT ...

A NYT editorial deplores the Luxembourg cops' successful gambit last week of pretending to be a camera crew to get close enough to shoot a man who had taken 37 children and three teachers prisoner. The Times says journalists must always be solely journalists. Any confusion on this point, says the paper, will just make journalism more dangerous and less truth-gathering. Now presumably, the Times thinks it's okay for cops, in similar desperate circumstances, to pretend to be other things. Pizza deliverer and bus driver, are two guises that have been used in hostage situations. And once the trick gets ...

DELAY STRIKES BACK Taking the experience of Newt Gingrich as a bad example, House Majority Whip Tom DeLay is planning a vigorous counterattack in response to the federal anti-racketeering suit filed against him by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC). DeLay's aides and lawyers vow they will not repeat the mistake of then Speaker Gingrich in ignoring ethics charges against him until it was too late. Intending aggressive counteraction, DeLay is considering deposing every member of the DCCC and perhaps all members of the House Democratic caucus. DeLay's staffers say House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt and DCCC Chairman Patrick ...

Respect for the forgotten heros of Vietnam made me search out a Annapolis aviator and get his comments. He said "MCAIN IS A FELLOW ANNAPOLISMAN BUT ONE WHO FINISHED 5TH FROM THE BOTTOM OF HIS CLASS. HE SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN A VERY REBELLIOUS MIDSHIPMAN. He added that McCains total combat flight hours in Vietnam was 20 hrs. He also a said that he respected Geo. Sr for not micro-managing the Gulf War like Lyndon tried to do, and left it to the military to win.