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Women vs. Men: How Midlife Is DifferentMaybe the male midlife crisis stereotypically took the form of nifty new wheels because most men didn't grow up idealizing work. It was a means of putting food on the table and showing who was boss; actual happiness and satisfaction usually had to come from someplace else. In contrast, professional women, having fought so hard to break into fields that were once closed to them, often expect more from their jobs. If they are unhappy at 45, disenchanted with corporate politics or discouraged because they are not making a contribution to some larger...
...folks who know the old Karmazin, the idea of splurging on content sounds like a remarkable change of heart for a guy who became a cult figure on Wall Street as a radio adman, the Infinity boss and a media consolidator focused on the bottom line. After selling Infinity to Westinghouse (which had swallowed CBS a year earlier) for $4.9 billion, he became head of CBS in 1999 and then sold the whole thing to Viacom for $40 billion. He found himself the No. 2 guy at Viacom, behind chief Sumner Redstone. The two clashed famously, in part over personalities...
...been assigned to a secret project designed to smear Bruno Gaccio, lead writer of the channel's popular news parody, Les Guignols de l'Info. Martinet's new book recounts how he shadowed Gaccio for six months in 2002 in what he says was an effort by channel security bosses "to discredit Gaccio by discovering outrageous information from his private life." Martinet says Gaccio was targeted as a leader of Canal Plus' famously feisty staff, as well as the driving force behind Guignols, a show which has infuriated politicians and public figures for years. Barely two months after Gaccio...
...models. Songs In The Keys Of Nokia Recovering mobile king Nokia last week flew American rhythm-and-soul star Alicia Keys to Amsterdam to help launch the N91, the company's response to Apple's iPod music player. Keys dazzled the crowd with piano wizardry and powerful vocals. Nokia boss Jorma Ollila is hoping she can do for the N91 what rocker Sheryl Crow did for the iPod. The stylish device holds 3,000 songs and doubles as a phone. It can fetch tunes from mobile networks and wireless Internet connections; iPod can't. But the $910 price will probably...
Would you rather be a boss or a totally awesome wingman? I'm really a team player. My nightmare would be Cast Away...