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...Dick Gephardt in the 2000 primaries, will not stand up for New Democratic achievements--the balanced budget, welfare reform, economic growth--that the Clintons see as their legacy. This seems unfair, since Gore consistently argued in favor of those positions inside the White House--sometimes before the Clintons were aboard. Clinton has fretted about Gore's ability to hold firm--not because he questions Gore's beliefs but because he is not confident of Gore's political adroitness. "The President and First Lady are understandably concerned that there's going to be a lot of pressure on the Vice President...
...language of an observer, watching himself being watched in the role of the Soul-Searching Man. "That's part of the art of life. You bring the essence of who you are to whatever task you are performing," he told Time last week in his cabin aboard Air Force Two. Paper snowflakes dangled above his head, and a string of Christmas lights blinked on and off. "Everybody has aspects of their personality that are stronger than others. And part of becoming a well-integrated person involves the task of strengthening those aspects not necessarily emphasized in your previous growth...
When he started looking for international opportunities eight years ago, Barden had had a long career in the U.S. His holding company, Barden Companies, is involved in riverboat gambling (aboard a vessel operating out of Gary, Ind.) and owns radio stations in Illinois, a computer-assisted learning company in Tucson, Ariz., and a construction company building housing projects in Detroit. Last year these businesses racked up sales of $93 million. But Barden had no foreign contacts...
...director had busted budgets before (on The Abyss, Terminator II, True Lies). But his pictures have grossed more than $1 billion, all told. So Fox was moved at once to green-light his tale of young lovers (Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet) who meet aboard the ill-fated ship. It's seen through the eyes of an elderly survivor of the 1912 disaster (Gloria Stuart), who recounts her ordeal to treasure hunters (led by Bill Paxton) seeking a jewel believed to be submerged in the wreck...
Jackson and Alwaleed became pals in 1994, when a mutual friend from Alwaleed's college days in California arranged a lunch meeting aboard the prince's yacht in Cannes. They hit it off, and Alwaleed became very protective of Jackson, whom he saw as a creative genius with lousy business instincts and bad p.r. "I cannot base my relationship on innuendo," says Alwaleed. "I believe that all the fuss around him has no basis. I believe that he is still an underdeveloped asset. There is no other artist who can go to some countries and have the whole place come...