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...unnamed men--Di maintained her dignity last week as she toured Chicago raising money for cancer research. Also Stateside was sister-in-law Fergie, whose trip was not born of altruism. In Manhattan, Fergie, who has signed on with the modeling agency Next Management, inked a deal with Simon & Schuster--reportedly worth $1.3 million--to write her autobiography...
Robert M. Shrireman, legislative director for Sen. Paul M. Simon (D-Ill.), said those efforts were largely responsible for staving off the cuts...
...sign of a good idea is that you think it's been done before. But in Kennedy & Nixon (Simon & Schuster; 377 pages; $25), author Christopher Matthews, a newspaper columnist and television pundit, places a frame around these epic 20th century figures for the first time, revealing in this smart, well-researched, readable book that the two cold warriors had more in common than one may suspect. Matthews' thesis is that both Kennedy and Nixon secretly despised the Establishment--Nixon because he felt excluded from it, Kennedy because he felt above it. Most of all they were united by their ambition...
...Reported by John Colmey/Katmandu, Meenakshi Ganguly/New Delhi, Jenifer Mattos/New York and Simon Robinson/Auckland
...this, McCormack insists, "we were ignorant, and to the extent that that ignorance is a failure on our part, then we deserve some of this heat." St. Martin's is not the first U.S. publisher to yank a controversial book off its list. In the most celebrated recent instance, Simon & Schuster decided in 1990 not to release Bret Easton Ellis' novel American Psycho after advance reviewers complained about its voyeuristic scenes of women being tortured. (Knopf later bought the discarded manuscript and published it in paperback.) But the St. Martin's case is more complex because it involves a work...