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...sweaters," he says, "you need to be able to find sweaters." He wants to upgrade the product line -- more high-end electronics, less cubic zirconium -- and eventually to introduce self-contained programs. He has been contacted by everyone from top designers like Donna Karan and Calvin Klein to Roseanne Barr (who wants to market a line of large-size women's clothing). They would join such current QVC pitchpeople as Diane Von Furstenberg, a close friend of Diller's, and Joan Rivers, a famous enemy. (Rivers was publicly furious at Diller for canceling her late-night talk show...
EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENTS: Donald J. Barr, Donald M. Elliman Jr., Robert L. Miller...
...justice and civil rights. But after the Justice report was released, Sessions did a poor job of responding to the charges, attacking FBI agents and other government officials. Questions about his competence and his integrity began to proliferate. In a letter accompanying the Justice report, former Attorney General William Barr accused Sessions of "a clear pattern of your taking advantage of the government." The report charged that Sessions...
Sessions denies any wrongdoing and has offered to compensate the FBI for some of the disputed travel expenses. Vice President Gore said last week that Sessions may have been targeted by Barr because of Sessions' plan to probe charges that the Justice Department was involved in a cover-up of the Iraqgate scandal. "We owe him a fair review of the allegations," said Gore. But agents who feel that Sessions has brought shame on the FBI have breached the bureau's traditional code of secrecy. Agents openly refer to Sessions as "Director Concessions," "the empty suit" and "Chauncey Gardiner," after...
...Sessionses have not been been shy about taking their case to the press. In late January, after the Justice Department report was issued, Sessions invited a dozen reporters to his office. He engaged in a bitter soliloquy in which he asserted that his nemesis Barr "was in league with others" to do him in. Although Sessions declined to be interviewed for this story, his wife told TIME, "All I have done is stand by my honest man. I know what Bill Sessions is, and I know what he does and doesn't do. We were raised middle- class Midwest...