Word: marc
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...much as anything, our short attention span deserves as much credit for the turnaround. "The problems connected with their leaving the White House are starting to fade," says Waller. "So you don?t have a press corps following her around pelting her with questions about Marc Rich and parting gifts." (While that is largely true, the discovery of a note penned by Hugh Rodham, may renew interest in, and questions about, the First Lady?s knowledge of a few decidedly questionable pardon requests). Whatever half-life the pardon story has, however, it is unlikely to completely overshadow Clinton...
...call her "my little Type A personality," a phrase Witherspoon borrowed to name her production company. She's a notorious spur to her films' writers; she helped turn Blonde into something resembling the female-empowerment comedy Private Benjamin. That intensity carries over to the set. Says Blonde co-producer Marc Platt: "Whether it was Take 2 or Take 7, she'd be focused as if there was no one else on the set--mouthing the words, in character, to make sure she had it just the way she wanted it. She had to consume the character...
...crime, more than the rest of the world combined for the past three years, according to Amnesty International. And Beijing recently ordered newspapers to avoid reporting corruption scandals, religious practices or the private lives of leaders. "The real question in China is the survivability of the party," says Marc Blecher, a professor at Ohio's Oberlin College, "and if it's threatened, the Olympics become low priority...
...billion Dutch mega-chain Royal Ahold. Having a Dutch uncle has won Peapod its first operating profit since the high-tech home-delivery service was founded in 1989. It expects to be fully profitable by 2003, partly because it curtailed its early ambitions. "We got too big," says Marc van Gelder, a former Ahold executive who is Peapod's ceo. "Now we're staying east of the Mississippi"--and binding the company tightly to Ahold-owned stores and distribution centers...
...David Van Biema. Reported by Marc Hequet/St. Paul, Julie Rawe/ New York and Cathy Booth Thomas/Dallas