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...practice. Starting this Friday, 800,000 copies of his much anticipated autobiography, My American Journey, will start landing in bookstores. Meanwhile, Powell embarks on a 23-city, 20-day publicity blitz, including TV interviews with Barbara Walters, Larry King, Jay Leno and Tom Brokaw, that promises to be the D-day of author tours. Then, as he tells TIME in this week's interview, his first to appear since his retirement in 1993, "I'll sit down with my family and those people who provide me with advice and counsel and some very dear friends who care about...
...list of nominees over the past 16 years one could find any pattern suggesting that any member of the documentary committee was irresponsible or unethical. With regard to my involvement, I do not think a single voting member of the committee this year knew that my company was distributing D-Day Remembered [which received a nomination for Best Documentary Feature]. Also, to suggest that I am a committee sachem" is false, since I have not been a member for the past four years, nor have I been involved in making rules or running the committee. Mitchell W. Block, President Direct...
Markedly out of step with Newt Gingrich's headlong march to the future, Dole's campaign evokes a more heroic era. Dole first started giving new thought to running during last summer's D-day anniversary celebrations, where other veterans greeted him as a hero, bringing their children and grandchildren to meet him. Until then, he had agreed with the idea that Bill Clinton's election marked a new generation. Now, he believes he has been given another chance: "Maybe there is one more mission. Maybe there is one more call to serve...
...could win you big money in a trivia contest some day, so save this list: Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter, D-Day Remembered, Freedom on My Mind, A Great Day in Harlem and Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision. One of these films will win this year's Oscar for Best Documentary Feature. And a host of moviewise people will mutter, "Yeah, well, it shoulda been Hoop Dreams...
...protests at all the bloodshed -- snipers were also picking off Russian soldiers waiting outside the city -- increased the pressure for a quick victory. Grachev moved up his D-day to New Year's Eve. The buildup of forces was halted, and local commanders had to go in with whatever units they could cobble together. Some were only at half-strength, and others were Interior Ministry troops, a kind of national guard used for internal security. "There was no joint training," says Sherman Garnett, a former head of Russian affairs at the Pentagon in Washington, "and the command was divided...