Word: handing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...distractions that beguile Rowling's readers: no radio, films, recorded music, TV, video and computer games, the Internet. For years, literary culture has been portrayed as gasping on life support, sustained only by old-fogey teachers and hidebound school curricula. The death of the author was surely at hand. And then along came Rowling...
...chairman Robert Pitofsky now had a hand to play, a sudden and broad public mandate to go after both companies. "In January you couldn't have found a lawyer in Washington who would have questioned this deal," says Richard Parsons, Time Warner's president. "It turned into an unbelievable and frustrating course...
...called a traitor), he broke off talks without a counteroffer. Tensions rose, and Palestinians--angered by Israeli hard-liners and reputedly egged on by Arafat--launched attacks and drew blistering reprisals. The fighting killed hundreds. By December, Arafat, a 1994 Nobel Peace Prize winner who had publicly clasped the hand of Yitzhak Rabin, was appearing in public clasping a submachine...
...ranch, which he clears with a vengeance because it distracts his view of the big picture. Gore personally managed his legal strategy and wrote his own statements on his laptop. Bush delegates with abandon; during our hours at the ranch, while his lead was slipping in the hand counts, he neither turned on the news nor checked in with his aides. When called with word of the Supreme Court stay, he chatted for only a few minutes and didn't even ask which Justices had ruled...
...watching Richard Hatch take his clothes off. Regis dropped by to perform the wedding ceremony for Darva Conger and Vladimir Putin (I must say, they made a stunning couple). Then we all went down to the N.R.A.-theme restaurant on Broadway, where everyone gave Charlton Heston a cold, dead hand. Suddenly Barbra Streisand got up onstage and yelled, "Do you know what it is to have to walk around in high heels and sing 35 songs a night, to have to diet and get into those dresses?" Do I ever...