Word: pressings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...York real estate mogul (and tabloid fixture) Donald Trump to step forward. The Donald has the celebrity and the brains to be a businessman's Ventura, a perfect placeholder for The Body because he's unencumbered by a demanding constituency or ideology, and might at least grab enough press to keep the dream alive until 2004. Then there were whisperings about Warren Beatty. If he ran as single-issue gadfly (campaign finance reform) and not as an ultra-liberal, his star power could light up a few election booths. But the actor, a long-time Democrat, didn't respond...
...former senator, a Princeton University graduate, has reached out to college students in an effort to "energize" that historically apathetic demographic, said Tony Wyche, Bradley's deputy press secretary...
...There have been many incidents of torture by police," said Richard Zassissieh, the Zimbabwe country specialist for Amnesty International. "Zimbabwe is a place where the press are struggling to maintain their freedom and [there is] state-sanctioned harassment of journalists...
...this arrangement will change almost immediately because the story keeps on developing. Last Wednesday Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic Press; 435 pages; $19.95) finally went on sale in the U.S., exactly two months after its publication in Britain. Those U.S. readers who had not managed to obtain a copy of the British edition, chiefly through Internet orders, swamped bookstores nationwide. From El Centro, Calif., to Littleton, N.H., many stores opened for business at 12 a.m.; others offered customers tea and crumpets or steep initial discounts. Barbara Babbit Kaufman, president and founder of the Chapter...
...They still are incredibly fun to write." She lives comfortably but not lavishly in Edinburgh with her daughter Jessie, 6, fending off as many outside demands on her time as she can in order to keep writing. She was completely unprepared for, and doesn't much like, all the press attention that has been mounting since she became a best-selling first novelist. During some early interviews, she mentioned that her beginning work on the Harry Potter books corresponded briefly with a bad patch in her personal life. She was newly divorced, temporarily out of work, on the dole...