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...reassure them that his state was not vegetative. Editors at French publisher Robert Laffont, who had worked with Bauby before his stroke, were so impressed that they proposed he use the method to write a book about his condition. Bauby accepted and, composing and editing his prose before dawn, dictated entire sections of the book from memory, letter by letter, to Laffont employee Claude Mendibil...
...public popularity and confidence -- he has a 66 percent approval rating, and the majority of residents say they feel safer no w than five years ago -- commissioners and even some of his staunchest supporters say Williams has pretty much dropped the ball on what was expected to be the dawn of a kinder, gentler era for the LAPD. Part of it has to do with his own shortcomings an d failures -- notoriously poor management, an inability to win the support of the top echelons of a police departments still deeply entrenched with Gates loyalists, and very mixed reviews on whether...
...with some of its early in-house productions, like The Lemon Sisters with Diane Keaton and The Long Walk Home with Sissy Spacek and Whoopi Goldberg. It has been more successful with genre films birthed by Bob Weinstein's Dimension Films. Dimension plans sequels to Scream, From Dusk Till Dawn and Total Recall, originally made by another studio. Miramax, which traditionally had more pickups than homegrown product, is making more of its own films. The company is plunging into musicals, with movies of Chicago (possibly starring Madonna and Goldie Hawn) and Rent. Weinstein has vaguer plans for a monthly magazine...
...entire life, a life spent leaving nothing to chance. "There are lots of smart people who kind of slough off, and it eventually catches up with them," she says. She is the girl who organized her neatly underlined notes in college into 15 different colored notebooks. She rises before dawn and stays up late, reading everything. She rehearses sound bites so they sound unrehearsed. "I do not believe that things happen accidentally," she says. "I believe you earn them...
Bulgaria, fueled by the one thing sure to unite an angry nation: poverty. In the industrial town of Pernik, 2,000 miners gathered at dawn at the regional mining directors' office, demanding higher wages as well as the ouster of the director. Evtim Evtimov, strike committee leader at the St. Anna coal mine, reminded workers that late wages were paid immediately when miners threatened to strike last month. "That means there is money," he said. "We won't back off these demands." Until this week, protesters in Bulgaria were mostly white-collar workers and students. But now the Socialists...