Word: barone
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...some analysts say CyberWorks' problems go deeper than short-term stock volatility. Several strategic joint ventures aimed at turning the younger Li into Asia's most dynamic multimedia baron have failed to materialize in recent months. One deal was intended to enable CyberWorks to distribute Chinese-language content to the mainland. CyberWorks has also been unable to persuade Japanese Internet giant Softbank to distribute its Network of the World (NOW), a broadband Internet service delivered across Asia to television sets, computers and wireless devices. "This suggests it isn't as attractive as its potential partners once thought it was," says...
produced by Nicole Ruiz '02 and Suzanne Baron...
...California bankruptcy court last week awarded ANNA NICOLE SMITH, she of the breasts, $449.7 million, an amount the judge said was the former Playboy Playmate's rightful inheritance from a blink-and-you-missed-it marriage to the late oil baron Howard Marshall. The two met in a Houston topless bar, where Smith was working as a stripper. When they married in 1994, she was a nubile 26 and he was 89--but a young 89. Marshall died one year later, leaving two sons to fight with their stepmother over an estimated $1.6 billion fortune. The court ruled that Pierce...
When he was a child living in Manhattan while his father worked for the United Nations, the boy who was to become Britain's Fifth Baron Haden-Guest of Saling passed his happiest hours staring out his apartment window at the passing parade. He would imitate the funny walks he saw, improvising accents he imagined might match them...
When he was a child living in Manhattan while his father worked for the United Nations, the boy who was to become Britain's Fifth Baron Haden-Guest of Saling passed his happiest hours staring out his apartment window at the passing parade. He would imitate the funny walks he saw, improvise accents he imagined might match them...