Word: pressing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Obsessed with secrecy, Castano has given only a handful of press interviews and refused until recently to have his face photographed. Catching up to him involved two plane flights, a muddy drive through banana plantations and finally a speedboat ride through a thunderstorm across the Gulf of Uruba to the Darien Gap, the mountainous rain forest separating Colombia from Panama. Castano was waiting on the beach, surrounded by 30 hulking paramilitaries hidden among giant ceiba trees...
...joined the magazine not long after graduating from Princeton in 1977--after a brief flirtation with politics steered him to journalism. At TIME he's been a writer in the Nation section, our press critic and editor of the World section. As deputy managing editor, he has spearheaded a number of special projects, including this year's provocative Visions special editions. As Walter says, "Jim has a wonderful feel for making great magazines and relishing smart reporting." His superb abilities as an editor and his unerring instincts in keeping your interests foremost make him the perfect choice to lead TIME...
...that's changing fast. Financial advice geared specifically at women has become a thriving industry, encompassing targeted marketing by Wall Street, special attention from the financial press, innumerable books--and now some useful websites. Muriel Siebert, who runs the discount brokerage firm Siebert Financial Corp., bought two of them last month. Her relaunched wfn.com is the only women's financial site to offer trading as well as online bill paying and the ability to aggregate all your accounts...
...attend, Clinton did create a special transition commission to help - when all the issues are settled. The Bush team will file with the IRS as a "Texas nonprofit.") Cheney named Austin chief of staff Clay Johnson as executive director of the transition, and campaign spinner Ari Fleisher as its press spokesman. And he hinted that Bush's administration might well include some Democrats...
...dark - Monday afternoon, he set up an ostentatiously televised conference call with Dick Gephardt and Tom Daschle (on camera) giving the party blessing to Gore and Lieberman (disembodied voices). The spin flew so fast, it could have been a psychic-friends infomercial. Gephardt and Daschle followed up with a press conference, doing some math that showed Gore victorious "if all the votes are counted." Film of Gore and Lieberman on the phone followed that...