Word: ideas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...carry and move her family to a new place, learn new customs, a new language. "Mother used to tell stories of how she had to buy pots and pans but didn't know what to choose because she had never cooked," recalls Albright's brother John. "She had no idea of what foods to purchase or in what quantity...
...Time Warner, asking for the records of Hubbell's employment. The company hired Hubbell after one of its outside lobbyists, longtime Democratic consultant Michael Berman, approached Hubbell about doing some legal work in the antitrust area. According to Berman, Hubbell was game, and so Berman then mentioned the idea to Tim Boggs, Time Warner's Washington representative. Not long afterward, Hubbell himself called Boggs and offered his legal services directly. Peter Haje, Time Warner's executive vice president and general counsel, approved Hubbell's contract...
...Time Warner arrangement shortens the link between the White House and Hubbell's campaign to find work. Berman is in the first circle of advisers to the First Lady and talks regularly with Clinton's close friend and aide Bruce Lindsey. In an interview last week, Berman said the idea for hooking Hubbell up with Boggs was his alone; no one at the White House, he said, suggested or even knew of the deal. "Webb was looking for work," he explained. "I was a friend of Webb's. So I asked Webb if he had experience with antitrust work...
Note to aspiring actors: if your idea of movie stardom is a big trailer and a seven-figure salary, consider the career of Parker Posey. At 28, she has ornamented more than a dozen American independent films. Yet to get to the set of Gregg Araki's The Doom Generation, where she played the leading lady's "eternal love slave" in a blond friz wig, Posey had to pay half her airfare. For Party Girl, in which she did a beguiling star turn as a club hopper with the improbable dream of being a librarian, she earned...
...receptionists at the mental health services just don't have any idea what the patients are going through," she says...