Word: secrets
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...close ties to both the chief of staff and the daughter. "He enjoys the President's total confidence." Another influential figure in the world of business and politics says Yumashev was crucial in modifying Yeltsin's original plans for last week's reshuffle, although exactly what he did remains secret...
...made of it all. The gods must indeed have seemed crazy in Wanyange, a cluster of mud huts on the shores of Lake Victoria, where a state-of-the-art metal detector had been plunked down in the middle of the red dirt road leading into the hamlet. The Secret Service deemed Rwanda's memorial to genocide victims, on a hillock at the airport, too dangerous a venue for Clinton's speech on the slaughter. A White House advance woman felt compelled to remind network correspondents that it would be "inappropriate" to deliver their stand-ups in cell...
...gossipy literary circles of New York City, the half-life of an industry secret is generally the next lunch. That's why the announcement last week that German media titan Bertelsmann AG was buying Random House was doubly shocking. Hardly anyone knew that the venerable American publishing institution, a supposedly sacrosanct division of Advance Publications, was for sale. The estimated $1.4 billion deal was negotiated surreptitiously over four months. Indeed, many Random House staff members found out about it by reading the morning newspaper...
...hero of a David Mamet movie, of House of Games, Homicide, Oleanna or his newest, finest shell game, The Spanish Prisoner. In this diamond-hard, ice-cold thriller, young Joe Ross (Campbell Scott) has developed a secret "process" worth billions to his company, whose chief (Ben Gazzara) is slow to give Joe credit and quick to worry about someone stealing the process. In the company Joe has an ally (Ricky Jay) and a No. 1 fan, a perkily sarcastic secretary (Rebecca Pidgeon). But Joe is tempted to confide in Jimmy Dell (Steve Martin), a mysterious fellow with a wise warning...
...article "!Viva Selena!" [CINEMA, March 24, 1997], we referred to a book called Selena's Secret by Univision anchorwoman Maria Celeste Arraras. The book reports the results of an investigation into Selena's murder. Although in the article TIME characterized Ms. Arraras as one of the "scavengers...circling" after Selena's death, we were unaware at the time that Ms. Arraras had pledged to donate all profits from her book to charity. We apologize for any misunderstanding...