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...also negotiated pay packages with the Japanese on behalf of the MCA executives -- with whom he now regularly strikes deals for his filmmaker clients. CAA represented Stanley Jaffe and Sherry Lansing when they worked together until a few years ago as independent producers; now they run Paramount, against whom CAA continually negotiates deals. CAA is also a regular bargainer with 20th Century Fox, which Joe Roth ran until late last year, when Ovitz helped him negotiate an astonishingly sweet producer's deal with Disney. And Mike Eisner, who runs Disney, is one of Ovitz's best friends. The beneficiaries...
Clinton, stepping from his plane a bit later, spoke soberly of the uncertainties surrounding any aid program, acknowledging that "future political events might undermine the impact." Still, he insisted, the future of Russian democracy is of such paramount importance that the West must "do what's right" to help, and he added, "I think that the kind of things we propose are likely to have lasting and tangible impact." Although Clinton's aides have made much of the idea that they are supporting democratic reform rather than Yeltsin per se, after the two Presidents had their first working session, spokesman...
Instead of a higher drinking age, the data indicate that a lower drinking age combined with a higher driving age would best reduce drunk driving fatalities. Plus, it's a lot harder to be an underage driver than an underage drinker. If practical considerations are paramount, as MADD would have it, this is the clear solution. This way, all new drivers would already be experienced drinkers...
...central notion that legal scholarship and experience are of paramount importance in the selection and confirmation processes seems to have drowned under the tide of special-interests that have bastardized the last three Supreme Court confirmation hearings. Unfortunately, Clinton seems intent on continuing this tragic decline--this summer, he promised a pro-choice nominee...
...fastest growing language in the universe (if you consider that it started with a base line of zero speakers in the mid-1980s). It was invented by a linguist named Marc Okrand, whose business is producing closed captions for television. He happened to be in the Paramount cafeteria having lunch with a friend just when the producers of the film Star Trek II were desperately looking for someone with a Ph.D. to do a bit of Vulcan dialogue. Okrand offered his services...