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Chicago Tribune, 13 January, 2001
By William Jefferson Clinton
Shaping the future
America's role in a challenging world
By William Jefferson Clinton
The great question of this new century is whether the age of interdependence is going to be good or bad for humanity. The answer depends on whether we in the wealthy nations spread the benefits and reduce the burdens of the modern world, on whether the poor nations enact the changes necessary to make progress possible, and on whether we all can develop a level of consciousness high enough to understand our obligations and responsibilities to each other.
We cannot make it if the poor of the world are led by people like Osama bin Laden who believe they can find their redemption in our destruction. And we cannot make it if the wealthy are led by those who cater to shortsighted selfishness and advance the illusion that we can forever claim for ourselves what we deny to others. We are all going to have to change.
Philosophers and theologians have long talked about the interdependence of humanity. Politicians have talked about it, quite seriously at least, since the end of World War II, when the United Nations was established. But now ordinary people take it as a given because it pervades every aspect of our lives. We live in a world where we have torn down walls, collapsed distances and spread information.
The terrorist attacks on Sept. 11 were just as much a manifestation of this globalization and interdependence as the explosion of economic growth. We cannot claim all the benefits without also facing the dark side of the coin.
It is very important, therefore, that we see the present struggle against terrorism in the larger context of how to manage our interdependent world.
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Remember way back when the resident of the White House was competent enough to sit on a couch, while eatting solid food and still speak in whole sentences?
Damn -- now where'd I put those pretzels?
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
The resident 9-year-old has a major thing for 'The Simpsons', and he didn't mind the double dose, but even
he realized that both episodes were reruns, even though the TV Guide had promised a fresh episode.
Caught some of 'Weakest Link'. Has anyone else seen the piss-poor excuse for a daytime syndicated version
of this 'treasure'? Anne Robinson is much more butch than the poor boy who is trying to channel her.
Saw some of the 'People's Choice Awards'...they should have stuffed it & served it for Thanksgiving.
Also saw the late rerun of 'X-Files', where they show much better episodes than what is currently in prime
time....it was the one with Peter Boyle as the psychic insurance guy. Without a doubt, one of the finest
actors of our time!
Tonight, Monday, CBS has an entirely fresh evening - 'King of Queens', 'Yes, Dear',
'Raymond', 'Becker' & 'Family Law'.
NBC also has a fresh night, with 'Fear Factor', 'Third Watch', & 'Crossing Jordan'.
No more MNF on ABC. Fresh hour of 'Regis' & then a movie - 'Forces Of Nature'.
The WB has a fresh night, with '7th Heaven' and 'Angel'.
Faux also goes fresh tonight, with 'Boston Public' and 'Ally McBeal', where Jon Bon Jovi guests.
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Working On Sunday
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton
Survivors of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and relatives of those who died joined Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton
on Sunday in seeking changes to the proposed federal compensation plan.
The September 11 Victims Compensation Fund was created as part of a $15 billion airline relief package established by
Congress. It allows families to apply for federal money to cover lost wages, pain and suffering, as long as they agree
not to sue airlines and other entities.
Clinton, a Democrat, met with families and announced several proposed changes to eligibility guidelines, including
eliminating a requirement that the injured seeking compensation must have received medical treatment by noon on Sept. 12.
Families of those killed in the attacks receive an immediate payment of $50,000, and those injured get $25,000
when their applications are processed. The minimum award for the families of deceased is $250,000, before deductions.
The average award is expected to be about $1.65 million.
Clinton said the 24-hour rule should be removed because many victims could not get to a hospital until later.
Kenneth Feinberg, the Georgetown University Law Center professor appointed to administer the fund, said the
concern is valid.
Feinberg said the other option is appealing to him for special consideration.
"He's asking us to trust him, to sign up and then see what happens," said Beverly Eckert, whose husband, Sean
Rooney, died at Aon Corp. in the south tower where he worked. "We need stronger assurances and more specific
guidelines as to what we can expect because there's no going back at that point."
Eckert calculated that her family would receive nothing under the fund's rules, which subtract compensation
from life insurance policies and pension funds.
Clinton said she wants those deductions to be made before the pain and suffering minimum is determined.
The Justice Department's deadline for written comments on the legislation is Jan. 22.
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
60th Birthday Celebration
Muhammand Ali
Muhammand Ali, seated, is joined by, from left, Howard Bingham, Will Smith, India.Aire, Cuba Gooding Jr., Paul Simon,
Sidney Poitier, Natalie Cole, Larry King, Sylvester Stallone, Laila Ali and Jon Voight at the taping of "Muhammad Ali's
60th Birthday Celebration," Saturday, Jan. 12, 2002, in Los Angeles. The show airs Wednesday night on CBS.
Photo by Monty Brinton
Making ABC A ``Talent Magnet''
Susan Lyne
Just five days into her new job as ABC programming chief, Susan Lyne said Sunday she plans to revive the ailing TV network's
prime time schedule by taking risks and by making ABC a ``talent magnet.''
Lyne's appearance before a room full of television critics and writers at an ABC-sponsored event in Pasadena, California
marked her first public appearance since assuming her new role early last week.
She declined to specify her plans to revive a network that has fallen from first to last in the ratings in two years,
largely paralleling the meteoric rise and fall of the game show ''Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.''
But Lyne said that rather than spend a lot of money to attract new talent, she will try to lure new creative people by
offering an environment where they will want to work.
``We will try to make ABC a talent magnet,'' she said, adding that the best way to do that is ``to create an atmosphere
where people can do their best work.''
Susan Lyne
''Talent Magnet''....ROFLMAO
With Friends Like This
Winona Ryder
Some Hollywood insiders are wondering if Winona Ryder would be in trouble today if she'd had a recent hit. The
two-time Oscar nominee will return to an L.A. court Feb. 8 for a hearing on whether she'll be charged with shoplifting,
and carrying Vicodin and other drugs without a prescription. The "Reality Bites" star was arrested Dec. 12 at the Saks
Fifth Avenue store in Beverly Hills.
Just 30, Ryder has been acting since the age of 14. The sloe-eyed brunette became a rare female film power, bringing
"The Age of Innocence" to Martin Scorsese and "Bram Stoker's Dracula" to Francis Ford Coppola. In 1999, the brainy
beauty also was an executive producer of her star vehicle "Girl, Interrupted."
Ryder has been an unusually vocal supporter of up-and-comers like Gwyneth Paltrow, Claire Danes and Kirsten Dunst.
But her sisterliness was not always rewarded.
Angelina Jolie stole scenes from her in "Girl," and it has never been denied that Paltrow, the pal who bunked
with Ryder after the breakup with Brad Pitt, walked off with Ryder's copy of the script for "Shakespeare in Love."
Winona Ryder
LAPD Says 'Significant Progress'
Bakley - Blake
Los Angeles police say they've made "significant progress" in the eight-month investigation of the slaying
of actor Robert Blake's wife, but are not yet ready to name a suspect.
Detectives have been sifting through videotapes, photographs, letters and other documents that belonged to
Bonny Lee Bakley, who was found shot to death May 4 in Blake's car as she waited for him to return from a
Studio City restaurant where the couple had just dined.
The investigation has sent detectives to Arkansas, New Jersey, Montana and Tennessee, said Capt. Jim Tatreau of
the Police Department's Robbery-Homicide Division.
No one has been arrested for the shooting and Blake - who married Bakley only after a paternity test showed
he was the father of her daughter - has denied any involvement. Most of the materials police have been examining
were provided by Blake's attorney, Harland Braun.
Bakley - Blake
The Newest 'Goosegirl'
Kevin James
Kevin James, the host of the 28th Annual People's Choice Awards, does a comedy routine on January 13, 2001 in
a dress similar to the one worn by artist Bjork at recent Academy Awards show. The awards show recognizes performers
in music, television and motion pictures.
Photo by Mike Blake
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'Daddy Dearest'?
Rob Lowe
Over the holidays, "West Wing" star Rob Lowetook his family on vacation in the woods. Lowe decided that his sons, Matthew, 8,
and John, 4, would be tickled by a little scare, so he dressed up as that hairy forest monster Bigfoot.
Lowe chose the perfect moment to jump out at the kids in his costume — but the younger boy gave Pops a surprise.
John "threw up, he was so scared," a source, who heard the story from Lowe himself, reports to us.
Lowe found the whole incident hilarious, but some of his "West Wing" castmates raised the prospect of lingering trauma.
"Your kids are going to need therapy," one of Lowe's colleagues told him.
The almost-reformed Brat Packer chuckled, "They were going to need therapy anyway."
Rob Lowe
Sundance Film Festival 2002
David Cross
Actor David Cross poses with two models as he arrives for at a party following the screening of his new comedy
film "Run Ronnie Run!" January 12, 2002 at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. The film based on
characters from the HBO series "Mr. Show" follows a small town loser who becomes a television superstar.
Photo by Fred Prouser
Barbara Walters' New Co-Anchor On ``20/20''
John Miller
John Miller will join Barbara Walters as co-anchor this week on ``20/20,'' becoming her first partner since Hugh
Downs retired in 1999.
Miller, 43, is ABC's top criminal justice reporter whose biggest coup was a May 1998 interview with Osama bin Laden.
Walters said she prefers working with a partner on ``20/20,'' but that ABC didn't see anybody ready to join her
when Downs retired. But after Sept. 11, Miller has stepped forward to distinguish himself.
Miller, a New York native, was a police reporter for ABC's New York affiliate who later became the New York Police
Department's top spokesman. He joined ABC News in October 1997.
After the terrorist attacks, ABC took advantage of Miller's police contacts and his background in investigating
bin Laden's terrorist network.
John Miller
Dating Rumor
Harrison Ford & Minnie Driver
Harrison Ford and Minnie Driver, who both had bad breakups recently, are said to be finding comfort in each
other's company. Ford, 59, and Driver, 30, have been dating for a month, according to New York magazine.
October was a cruel month for both of them. Ford separated from his wife of 18 years, "E.T." screenwriter
Melissa Mathison. Driver split up with her fiancé, Josh Brolin.
Reps for both actors declined comment, but word is they may show up together at Sunday's Golden Globes, where
Ford will receive the 2002 Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement.
Harrison Ford & Minnie Driver
Typecasting
Dame Maggie Smith
Dame Maggie Smith says it is easier to be typecast in film than in theater.
``I'm always in costumes and period things, wandering around in wigs, Merchant Ivory department. If they want
one of those snobbish English nasty people or whatever, I get into that bracket. It's all right,'' Smith says
in an interview with Newsday published Sunday.
Smith's latest ``snobbish'' character is the tea-swilling, bridge-playing, drawing room despot Constance, Countess
of Trentham, in the new film ``Gosford Park.'' The film, directed by Robert Altman, is a murder mystery set in a
country mansion during the 1930s.
Smith said she loved Altman's decision to make the actors act even if they were supposed to be in the background.
With everyone wearing a microphone and several cameras filming, the actors never knew when they were in the shot.
Although Smith has spent the bulk of her career in the theater, she's won two Oscars, for best actress for her work
as an eccentric teacher in ``The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie'' in 1969 and as best supporting actress for ``California Suite'' in 1978.
Dame Maggie Smith
Changing Program Name
``Rampart'' to ``The Shield''
After getting some flack from the scandal-plagued Los Angeles Police Dept., cable's FX channel has changed
the name of its upcoming rogue-cop series ``Rampart'' to ``The Shield.''
The show, which stars Michael Chiklis, will debut in March, FX president of entertainment Kevin Reilly said
during the Television Critics Assn. Tour in Pasadena Saturday.
The ``Rampart'' name was selected initially as a lightning rod to create some identity for the show. But its
creator, Shawn Ryan, said the show had nothing to do with the LAPD scandal, in which a crooked cop charged that
dozens of his colleagues in the inner-city Rampart division were involved in making false arrests, giving
perjured testimony and framing innocent people.
``Rampart'' to ``The Shield''
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Private Eyes On The Case
Liz Hurley
A teary Liz Hurley has been calling her pals around the world, apologizing for what she calls "harassment" by her
former lover and (maybe) father of her coming child, Hollywood producer Steve Bing.
Liz tells her friends - particularly the males - that Bing has hired a team of private eyes to dig up the dirt on
them as ammunition in any paternity case. He apparently wants to establish that Hurley and her crowd live the
swinging kind of life that makes it possible for any one of them to be the father-in-waiting.
She says Bing is just a tightwad who is trying to intimidate her into accepting a much smaller child support payment
than the 25 percent of his net she may be entitled to.
Liz Hurley
New Cable Network & Film-Making Fund
Robert Redford
Actor Robert Redford unveiled a new fund for documentaries on Sunday, fueled by $4.6 million from a group backed by
investor George Soros, and a new cable network devoted to nonfiction film.
``That allows us to kind of put teeth in a commitment that's been long-standing about trying to promote documentaries,''
Redford said at a news conference in the small ski town east of Salt Lake City where the Sundance Film Festival is held.
Sundance is the United States' top festival for independent films and is backed by Redford's Sundance Institute, which he
founded 20 years ago. The institute helps support documentary filmmakers, and the festival each year features 16 nonfiction films in competition.
Under the plan, the Soros' Documentary Fund, which is operated by his New York-based Open Society Institute, will
transfer money to the Sundance Institute to establish the Sundance International Documentary Fund.
Diane Weyermann, director of Sundance's international filmmaking program, said the $4.6 million will be granted over four years.
She said the fund could support up to 50 projects a year.
In addition, the Sundance cable channel, founded by Redford in 1996 to show independent films, will launch a sister
network devoted to documentaries later this year.
Robert Redford
Graphic Packaging
Oh, Canada
Graphic images imposed on the packs of Canadian cigarettes have made smokers more likely to try to quit, said a
government-funded study released January 9, 2002. Almost half the smokers in a study conducted for the Canadian
Cancer Society said the warnings had increased their motivation to quit, while more than a third of smokers who
tried to quit in 2001 said the labels, which have been mandatory for over a year, had been a factor. An unidentified
person walks past a sample of the packaging on Parliament Hill in Ottawa.
Photo by Jim Young
The official BartCop Astrologer, Geneva, always has something interesting to read!
Thought It Was ''Stand & Deliver'', Not ''Lock & Load''
Adam Ant
Eighties pop star Adam Ant, famed for his chart-topping hits ``Prince Charming'' and ``Stand and Deliver,'' has been charged
with assault and possessing a firearm after an alleged incident in a London pub.
A police spokesman said on Monday the 47-year-old musician from Primrose Hill, north London, was charged with possession
of a firearm or imitation firearm with intent to cause fear of violence.
``He is also being charged with criminal damage and one charge of actual bodily harm on a man in his forties,'' the spokesman added.
The charges relate to an alleged incident at a north London pub on Saturday night.
The star, whose real name is Stuart Goddard, was bailed to appear in court on January 18.
Adam Ant
$87 Million Becomes $216 Million
Dena Al Fassi
Saudi Arabia's Sheik Mohammed Al Fassi could be out $216 million if his estranged wife gets her way.
Dena Al Fassi, whose maiden name is Bilinelli, is suing the sheik and the Saudi royal family for their failure
to pay up on an 18-year-old separation settlement that was worth $87 million when it was awarded in 1983.
In the federal court suit filed Friday in Los Angeles, 40-year-old Al Fassi, who married the sheik in L.A. when
she was only 17, claims Saudi King Fahd and his brother, Prince Turki, refused to help her recover the
separation settlement from her husband.
The original judgment is now worth $216 million, reports the City News Service of L.A.
Dena, who now lives in Italy, lived lavishly with the sheik in a Beverly Hills mansion adorned with Greek statues.
But she claims the house became a jail for her, and her husband soon took in more wives.
Dena Al Fassi
Gee, the story doesn't mention that when the Al Fassi's were living in Beverly Hills they scandalized the neighborhood
by realistically painting (right down to the pubic hair) the Greek statues that adorn the mansion & its grounds.
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In Memory
Gregorio Fuentes
Gregorio Fuentes, former captain of U.S. novelist Ernest Hemingway's boat in Cuba and his inspiration for ``The Old Man
And The Sea,'' died on Sunday aged 104 in the fishing village of Cojimar.
``He was a symbol of Cuban fishing and of human brotherhood, thanks to all of his years of friendship with Hemingway,'' a
friend, Jose Miguel Diaz Escrich, who runs Havana's Hemingway International Nautical Club, told Reuters.
Fuentes, born on July 11, 1897, captained Hemingway's boat ''Pilar'' when the U.S. author lived on the Caribbean island.
In recent times, he had become something of a tourist magnet in Cojimar, just east of Havana, where he once used to embark
on marlin-fishing trips with the adventure-loving Hemingway.
``My grandfather was loved by everyone,'' his granddaughter America Aguas Fuentes told Reuters outside Gregorio Fuentes'
simple house in Cojimar. ``He used to really enjoy recounting stories, especially about the wonderful times he had with
Hemingway, whom he always carried with him in his mind.''
Fuentes died at his home Sunday morning and was buried at a cemetery in the nearby village of Guanabacoa in the afternoon,
friends said. Although still mentally lucid, he was suffering various ailments associated with old age.
Hemingway's 1952 masterpiece modeled its central character, and his colossal struggle to bring in the fish of his life,
on Fuentes. ``The old man was thin and gaunt with deep wrinkles in the back of his neck,'' Hemingway wrote in his
opening description of the weather-beaten fisherman.
``The blotches ran well down the sides of his face and his hands had the deep-creased scars from handling heavy fish on
the cords. But none of these scars were fresh. They were as old as erosions in a fishless desert.
``Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated,''
Last November, the writer's niece, Hilary Hemingway, presented the International Game Fish Association's (IGFA) ''Captain''
award to the cigar-smoking Fuentes at the Havana yacht marina named after her uncle.
``I'm delighted. It's a very important prize for my people,'' Cuba's most famous mariner said then after joining the
IGFA's exclusive club of 197 ``Captains.'' ``I would like to honor a great fisherman,'' Hilary Hemingway said in
her speech giving the prize.
Of late, Fuentes, whose local fame was also based on his survival of several hurricanes at sea, was said to have
been getting tired of the tourists flocking to his door and frequently expressed nostalgia for his heyday with Hemingway.
``Since he died, life hasn't been the same for me and I haven't been fishing like the old days,'' Fuentes, his
blotched and craggy face shaded by a cap marked ``Captain'', said in a recent interview with Reuters.
Hemingway, who left Cuba for good after the 1959 Cuban Revolution, shot and killed himself in 1961.
``Gregorio Fuentes was a historical relic,'' said another friend, who asked not to be named. ``He was very old
and starting to suffer, so maybe it was best for him to leave us now, although we will never forget him.''
Fuentes was born in the Canary Islands, but his parents emigrated to Cuba when he was a young boy.
Gregorio Fuentes
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Still MISSING
Marc Chagall's "Study for 'Over Vitebsk'"
