Word: pressing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...former communications director, before her departure from City Hall last May. Lategano only commented that she had "no desire to speculate why Donna Hanover decided to issue the statement that she did." She did not directly deny the allegations; neither did Giuliani. He did, however, mention at an emotional press conference last Wednesday night that another woman, Judith Nathan, was "a very, very fine person--I rely on her and she helps me a great deal." He did not fail to acknowledge his wife as being a "very, very fine, wonderful person," but he also mentioned that they grew apart...
...Yanks didn't do any better. On Capitol Hill, crippled e-mail systems forced an atypical silence in the halls of Congress, as well as some unusual scrambling. Arriving early on a day dominated by the death of John Cardinal O'Connor, New York Congressman Joseph Crowley's press secretary, Josh Straka, logged on to his computer only to unleash the bug. He spent the rest of the day manually faxing press releases. "My stress level was through the roof," he says...
...wrestling with the damage. "I was terrorized," says Cecolini. "My stomach was in knots." Old Westbury, N.Y., businessman Kamal Dandona's experience was even more nightmarish. Organizer of a major Bombay film industry-awards show to be held this month in Uniondale, N.Y., Dandona lost posters, press releases and digital photos of every major Hindi film star--all gobbled up by the virus...
...case that this matter of prurient press intrusion - and of private lives having public consequences - dates back not just to, say, Donna Rice, Gary Hart and the Monkey Business, but to Helen and Paris and the Trojan War? Did King David's behavior with Bathsheba tell us something we needed to know about the character issue? Would you have voted for King David? He did, after all, behave like a louse...
...TIME senior political writer Eric Pooley says that unlike a lot of political calculations, this choice will be made in real time by a man whose decisions often seem to hit him like lightning - flashes of inspiration to be passed on to the New York press as quickly and loudly as possible. "The only person who knows for sure whether Rudy Giuliani will run is Rudy Giuliani," he says. "There's an overwhelming feeling that he won't. But with this guy, you never know...