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...Robert Gottlieb, an accomplished and experienced editor for Knopf, is about to embark on the complicated project of eliciting from Bill Clinton a work of autobiography - a book dramatic enough, entertaining enough, powerful enough, let's face it, sexy enough to justify the $10 million advance that Knopf is paying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hard Job of Writing Bill Clinton's Memoirs | 8/13/2001 | See Source »

...irrational animal. Writers howl, run in circles, and bite editors on the calf. Bill Clinton, though brilliantly seductive as a communicator, comes as an amateur to the business of memoir-writing. How difficult will Clinton be to handle? I don't know. And who will be handling whom? Gottlieb is smart enough to refrain from writing in the margin, "INSERT SEXUAL NITTY-GRITTY HERE." Gottlieb's problem will be to get the boy from Hope to be honest in more important ways...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hard Job of Writing Bill Clinton's Memoirs | 8/13/2001 | See Source »

...Clinton's natural talent runs to the production of silk purses - smooth, self-serving versions of things. Gottlieb will have to work hard to get some genuine sows' ears out of the man - the unadorned, unspun, real stuff that is supposed to be a primary ingredient in a life story: What really happened. Clinton, a genius of self-presentation, may, when pressed, only seem to get real: He will produce sows' ears with sequins on them, shimmering accessories so lovely, in fact, that mere silk purses will go out of fashion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hard Job of Writing Bill Clinton's Memoirs | 8/13/2001 | See Source »

...border deals. That has made New York State law, in particular, a global gold standard, often invoked in a transaction even when neither party is based in the U.S. "It's become a neutral, third-party law," says Jeff Lewis, a partner at the New York City firm Cleary, Gottlieb. "In Asia and Latin America, when a state enterprise auctions off assets, the legal documents are often written to be governed by New York law. It's done to attract American investment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. Law Becomes The Global Standard | 6/11/2001 | See Source »

After leaving the London School of Economics, Rubin headed to New Haven for Yale Law School. But he practiced only briefly after graduating in 1964, joining Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton in New York City for just two years. He moved on to Goldman Sachs, where he remained for 26 years...

Author: By Nicole B. Usher, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Rubin's Steady Hand Guided World Finances | 6/7/2001 | See Source »

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