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...WIFE OF THE PARTY: PW damns by faint (or no) praise "Hidden Power: Presidential Marriages That Shaped Our Recent History" by journalist Kati Marton, wife of Richard Holbrooke, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations during the Clinton administration (Pantheon; September 21). "Predictable...banal...Marton has delivered crisply written political gossip - those who want buzz will flock to it; those looking for serious history will turn elsewhere. FORECAST: Despite its light quality, or perhaps because of it, this will be talked about everywhere, aided by a 13-city author tour, appearances on 20/20, Charlie Rose and other national media. Its first...
...WHEN IT?S HAYNES, IT POURS: Praise is raining down on "The Best of Times: America in the Clinton Years" by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Haynes Johnson (Harcourt; October). PW gives it a starred, boxed review, its highest accolade. "Johnson reevaluates what happened to America in the ?90s and paints a warts-and-all portrait that may shock many Americans and force others to review the new millennium?s values...America from 1990 to 2001 - from impeachment to recession, the rise of the Internet to the fall of Nasdaq, and the upheaval of the 2000 elections - is covered in startling...
...professionally but personally and socially. I loved it. I love people, I love the female sex, and I like to enjoy life. I'm easy to party with. The professors in Europe couldn't understand me. I could put a lot of entertainment and emotion into my lectures. A journalist in Germany once told me I'd never be recognized as a professor there because I wasn't serious enough...
...write better than anybody who can write faster," the American journalist A.J. Liebling used to say, "and faster than anybody who can write better." In the film game, To is the embodiment of that maxim. He makes quality pictures in quantity. He drives himself hard and his staff nuts; 24/7 is a normal work week at Milkyway. He suffered a severe burn on his right forearm while making Fulltime Killer, but kept on shooting. His editors have stayed in the cutting room 10 days and nights straight to get a movie in theaters on time. It's all about...
...seemed far from events on the ground, where at least 15 people died in continuing violence. IRAN Jailed for "Insults" A prominent member of the reformist bloc in Iran's parliament was sentenced to 22 months in prison for subversion. A judge said Fatima Haqiqatjoo's criticism of a journalist's arrest in February insulted state bodies and spread propaganda against Islam. Fellow M.P.s protested her conviction, accusing the judiciary of seeking to undermine the reformist parliament. Haqiqatjoo called the charges "politically motivated," and said she would sue the judge and seek a fair trial. AFGHANISTAN More Aid Threats...