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BOOKS . . . PERSONAL HISTORY: In her disarmingly candid and immensely readable autobiography (Knopf; 642 pages; $29.95), Katharine Graham not only chronicles her personal transformation from wife to the "iron lady" who built the Washington Post into one of the nation's great papers; she also provides an invaluable inside glimpse of some of the most critical turning points in American journalism, says TIME's Richard Zoglin. Graham is especially revealing about the insecurities that plagued her when she took over the Post after husband Phil's suicide: "I still had little idea of how to relate to people in a business...
...President's most vivid rebuff yet of Tupac Amaru's demand. And given the guerrillas' own intransigence, it illustrated just how long Peru's hostage crisis could drag on. Since the well-being of the hostages keeps Fujimori from using his iron fist to rescue them, he decided last week to rely on his own steely resolve, settling into a tense staring match with Tupac Amaru...
Clinton likes the appointment too, for lots of other reasons. In Albright he has found an iron-willed, deeply political, media-savvy advocate for his foreign policy, whose lack of strategic vision matters less to him than her muscular instincts and ability to talk like the popular professor she once was. When he was trying to make up his mind whom to choose, he kept recalling a conversation with Maryland Senator Barbara Mikulski, who lobbied hard for Albright. A lot of diplomats may grasp the complexities of Bosnia, she told the President, but only Albright could explain why we were...
...will know what type of toothpaste she uses, or how she likes her salad, with bad jazz surging from the Dolby THX surround-sound system and half the people in the theater moaning like they just had bad Chinese. For those hopeless romantics with the huge hearts and the iron stomachs, "The Mirror Has Two Faces" is definitely worth it. But for mere mortals, it may be a bit much to bear...
...character in the World Wrestling Federation. His special move would be "the waffle iron of death...