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...publishing scene. And why not? Knopf is paying Clinton more than $10 million for the rights to his autobiography, due next year. It is believed to be the biggest nonfiction deal of all time. A few weeks ago, we spotted him at the Studio Museum in Harlem at the launch party for "Bill Clinton and Black America" by DeWayne Wickham (One World/Ballantine). And on Tuesday night, we watched him hosting a party for Sarah Brady, the author, with Merrill McLoughlin, of "A Good Fight" (PublicAffairs; April 2). The scene in the Blue Smoke's Jazz Standard Club was pure Arkansas...
...There's plenty of reason to expect escalation from Palestinian side, too, with militants of Arafat's Fatah organization likely to launch a new wave of attacks in the hope of intensifying Israel's political and diplomatic crisis and of sending the message that Israel cannot resolve the crisis militarily. Once Zinni leaves, or perhaps even before, both Israelis and Palestinians would likely feel compelled to underscore their own negotiating positions with a show of force. And that could leave U.S. diplomacy stranded as the bullets start to fly again - but with disengagement now carrying an even higher diplomatic cost...
...making digital love connections. "We think of it as a social lubricant that gets people interacting," says Bob Stratton, 42, the former bartender, artist and dotcom executive who opened the $1 million bar last fall with two partners. He says Remote is so successful that they plan to launch an international chain...
...CeBIT, Logitech will also launch a foldable hard-case keyboard for pdas, called the TypeAway, that will compete with those sold by TARGUS and PALM. "Targus is a great product," says De Luca. "We made a mistake not to be interested in it." But Logitech is betting that it can catch up with the KeyCase and the TypeAway, which is more useful for keying in longer files, folds to a thickness of half an inch and weighs 3.9 oz., significantly smaller and lighter than anything else on the market...
President Bush's decision last month to make Nevada's Yucca Mountain the burial site for 77,000 tons of nuclear reactor waste may have seemed a good idea to the residents of 49 of the United States. But the state of Nevada is about to launch a $5 million media campaign designed to block the nuclear garbage dump. The state's powerful U.S. Senator, Democrat Harry Reid, has recruited two former White House chiefs of staff--John Podesta, who served under Bill Clinton, and Kenneth Duberstein, of the Reagan White House, to lobby Congress. Show-biz stars like Christie...