Word: coal
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...been selected to helm the company's next Bond entry. The Lion studio had been trying frantically to find someone, seemingly anyone, to handle the film, with Small Soldiers director JOE DANTE and others chatted up before the SEC filing. Apted, whose well-known films include Nell and Coal Miner's Daughter, has never made an action picture, and his selection seemed a curious, almost desperate choice. "They needed a director for hire," says an agent whose client was also approached for a Bond gig. "With these films, it's not about creating art; it's about making the release...
...been selected to helm the company?s next Bond entry. The Lion studio had been trying frantically to find someone, seemingly anyone, to handle the film, with "Small Soldiers" director Joe Dante and others chatted up before the SEC filing. Apted, whose well-known films include "Nell" and "Coal Miner?s Daughter", has never made an action picture, and his selection seemed a curious, almost desperate choice. ?They needed a director for hire,?? says an agent whose client was also approached for a Bond gig. ?With these films, it?s not about creating art; it?s about making the release...
GUILIN, China: Using his signature issue-of-the-day approach, President Clinton on Wednesday visited Guilin, a region that has pioneered environment-friendly development by replanting forests, cleaning up its rivers and weaning itself off of coal-burning energy. The green paradise, located amid the urban pollution of China's economic boom, provided the perfect backdrop for Clinton to do an environmental take on the salute-the-progress-but-warn-of-the-challenges routine that has become a hallmark of his China trip. "I believe that China has a unique opportunity -- because you're developing rapidly, but later in time...
NATO is about to be dragged into a messy war in Kosovo that it doesn't want but may be unable to avoid. In a fierce battle Wednesday, Serb forces ousted the insurgent Kosovo Liberation Army from the coal mining town of Belacevac and prepared for an onslaught on the besieged town of Kijevo -- dubbed "the most dangerous place in Europe" by U.S. envoy Richard Holbrooke last week. "A full-scale Serbian offensive against the KLA will force NATO to take action against the Serbs," says TIME correspondent Douglas Waller, who last week accompanied Holbrooke on a futile peace mission...
BENNETT (attorney for President Clinton): "I would like to have defended the Molly Maguires against the coal-company lawyers who prosecuted the Irish-Catholic immigrant miners charged with murder. Pennsylvania provided the courtroom and the hangmen. All else was done by private persons in the pay of coal-mine owners. Anti-Irish Catholic feeling was persuasive; due process was ignored...