Word: press
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that it was always about something bigger than me. Because, for me, it wasn't. For me, I was the one lying awake at night crying, scared I was going to go to jail. I was the one being followed. I was the one being torn apart in the press, and my family. And then, yes, I bore some responsibility for how that came about. But I don't know that the punishment fit the crime...
...Monica Lewinsky had begun to feel fixed and formulated by the eyes of the public, the prosecutors and the media, last week was her chance to change the formula. It was an elaborate affair, spanning continents and media formats, involving a small army of press flacks and a red river of Club Monaco lipstick. Memorialized by a sympathetic biographer, humanized by Barbara Walters and glamorized by an upcoming European tour, Monica was reborn in warm pools of soft publicity...
...antique-laden Madison Avenue office, Ralph Lauren, 59, the most successful fashion designer in American history and CEO of Polo Ralph Lauren, leans forward on a worn leather armchair to tell how much it hurts--the negative reviews of his fall collections and the articles in the business press detailing his company's disappointing earnings and questioning whether Lauren has lost his touch. "I'm the guy who built this company with my bare hands. I've been a big hero in this industry, and I like being a big hero. When the stock goes down, I take it personally...
...organized ring smuggling illegal aliens into the U.S. Since February 1996 the agency has arrested more than 3,000 people at Sky Harbor. "This is a pretty enterprising group of individuals," says Virginia Kice, spokeswoman for the Western regional office of the INS. "Drug smuggling gets a lot more press. But the smuggling of human beings is a multibillion-dollar enterprise...
Brott went on to write three helpful how-to books for Abbeville Press, beginning with The Expectant Father and followed by The New Father and A Dad's Guide to the Toddler Years. Topics ranged from providing expectant mothers with emotional support and helping babies cope with colic to establishing college funds and selecting life insurance. But his recently released fourth book is a sea change, moving away from the practical and toward the political. Throwaway Dads: The Myths and Barriers That Keep Men from Being the Fathers They Want to Be, co-authored with Ross D. Parke (Houghton Mifflin...