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Seattle Times reporter Duff Wilson and TimeMagazine journalists Michael Duffy, MichaelWeisskopf and Viveca Novak received the GoldsmithPrize for Investigative Reporting...
...hard to think of a better use of celebrity than inspiring the rest of us to get off our collective duff. But the project is not without some risk. We all know what the road to hell is paved with. And Powell's crusade could be seen as giving succor to Republicans who would like to leave it to volunteers to reweave the tattered safety net. "Nonsense," he says. "This is no replacement for government help. We're partners." Waving toward the capital skyline outside the window of his suburban office, he adds, "It's hard to shred the politics...
DIVORCING. RONALD PERELMAN, 53, acquisitive Revlon cosmetics billionaire, and PATRICIA DUFF, 42, Democratic Party fund raiser; in New York City; after 21 months of marriage. DIED. JULIET PROWSE, 59, leggy redheaded dancer who achieved fame in the 1960 movie musical Can-Can; of pancreatic cancer; in Holmby Hills, California. Raised in South Africa and trained as a ballerina, Prowse made worldwide headlines when Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev visited the Hollywood set of Can-Can and denounced the dancing as indecent. After her film career petered out, she went on to star in a series of TV specials...
Resentment began with the listing of Perelman's wife Patricia Duff on the magazine's masthead, and grew when staff members were told to use pictures of Revlon execs in a layout. It exploded last week after Pecker spiked Premiere's California Suite column when he learned of the subject: business deals involving Sylvester Stallone and the Planet Hollywood restaurant chain, which also has venture plans with Perelman...
...land rights to the great Maori warriors, the aborted attempt to dominate the island has translated into a process of westernization which threatens to complete the job. Traditionalists always have expressed their dismay at the needless pain the cultural division has so evidently caused. Now Maori artists like Alan Duff, on whose book the movie is based, and director Lee Tamahori are joining in the fight...