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...will help shape the next? At a party last week in New York City, we asked some of TIME's cover subjects to talk about the people who had most influenced them. These speakers included President Clinton, author Toni Morrison, director Steven Spielberg, actress Mary Tyler Moore, statesman Mikhail Gorbachev, scientist James Watson and entrepreneur Bill Gates. Other notables toasted their heroes, including some of the 84 cover subjects who attended (for a list, see page 20). It was a fascinating convergence of extraordinary people. "President Clinton and I have been trying to meet each other," noted Gorbachev. "It never...
...Turbo S--have a view of all Los Angeles. This is thanks to a picture window cut into the garage's wall. Yes, it's nice to be a TV star's car, just as it's nice to be a TV star. And now that even Mikhail Gorbachev has begun doing commercials for Pizza Hut, it seems pointless to argue with the medium that so dominates our lives and culture. Most of us threw in the towel long ago. But not Jerry Seinfeld. While the rest of America has been off getting college credit for studying Silver Spoons...
Another part of the festivities is a gala dinner we are hosting this week at Radio City Music Hall, across the street from our New York City offices. More than 100 former cover subjects, including President and Mrs. Clinton, Mikhail Gorbachev, Steven Spielberg, Bill Gates and Muhammad Ali, have accepted our invitation to an evening that we trust will be as stimulating as the guest list. (CNN will televise a special on TIME at 75 this Sunday, March...
...first interview we did with Mikhail Gorbachev, prior to the Geneva summit in 1985, was the first he gave to an American news organization--and contained some important signals. Henry Grunwald, TIME's editor-in-chief, received the call indicating that Gorbachev had agreed to a meeting. Grunwald, managing editor Ray Cave and I [as chief of correspondents] flew by Concorde to Paris and then on to Moscow. When we saw Gorbachev the next day, in the preliminary chitchat, he said, "What was Aeroflot like? I need to know...
...That's what I needed to know," shot back Gorbachev...