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...Before the game last week in which he acquired his 714th hotel, a journalist asked how he coped with the pressure. "Pressure?" Gilmore scoffed. "Real pressure is having four kids and paying a school tax of $150. Real pressure's breaking your leg and scrounging for fifty bucks for the doctor's fee. Monopoly ain't pressure...
...enemies. But now he was hacking out a squalid living in Madrid as a sword-for-hire. Nevertheless, Captain Alatriste is poised to become fiction's hottest international swashbuckler since the Scarlet Pimpernel. Already a cult hero in Spain, Alatriste is the star of five novels by former journalist Arturo Pérez-Reverte that have sold more than 4 million copies in 50 countries since the first volume appeared a decade ago. That book, Captain Alatriste, was finally published in English last year, and the second, Purity of Blood, came out in January. The captain has his own website...
...journalists, a rigid class system applies. Press passes for movie admittance come in four colors: white, pink, blue and yellow, in descending order of éclat. The white card, the carte blanche, gets you into all screenings early. The pink people have to wait a bit longer. The blues are relegated to the balconies of the larger auditoriums. (Fremeaux, back when he was a journalist, held a blue card.) And the yellows - well, they're there to make the people with blue passes feel better. Somehow, we got lucky. We've carried the white card for ages, and are forever...
DIED. Lawrence Lader, 86, journalist turned abortion-rights activist, whom feminist Betty Friedan called the "father" of the movement; in New York City. He became fascinated by the issue while writing about birth-control pioneer Margaret Sanger, and his landmark 1966 book, Abortion, was cited by the Supreme Court in its 1973 ruling to legalize abortion. He co-founded the pro-choice group now known as NARAL; lobbied for the manufacture of the abortion-inducing drug RU-486 in the U.S.; and targeted abortion opponents in lawsuits, including an unsuccessful challenge of the IRS for giving tax exemptions...
...spoke to TIME, standing on the sidewalk near the courthouse, the interview was interrupted by screaming. Five feet away, a young American journalist from Knight Ridder had attracted the attention of security forces by taking photographs. Five or six of them jumped on her and began grabbing for her camera, hitting her and reaching down her shirt as she stood pinned against a parked...