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...this, as well as other views of his action in foreign policy, through the breakup of the Soviet empire and the unification of Germany, will be in the book that he and former aide Brent Scowcroft are doing. It is hard, confining work for Bush. He lifts a 350-page mound of manuscript off his small desk and notes that on top are two pages of comments and suggestions by his Knopf editors. He sighs...
...Shields said two weeks ago that Eppsmanaged the club's breakup successfully
With Nextel and its other new partners, however, MCI joins the intense jockeying for position on the information highway. For many companies, the jam-up has had an unnerving effect. Last month's breakup of the planned Bell Atlantic-TCI merger came about after the two sides failed to agree on a purchase price. Last week Liberty Media, which is controlled by TCI chairman John Malone, said it wants to form an alliance with Blockbuster Entertainment in a deal that could threaten the already shaky Viacom-Paramount-Blockbuster merger. Another contender, Time Warner, announced that an expected spring start...
Smith and Malone had been an odd couple from the start. Smith, 56, an amateur actor and playwright who turned Bell Atlantic into the most venturesome of the seven Baby Bells, had come up through the staid bureaucratic ranks of AT&T before its breakup in 1984. Malone, 52, is a strong-willed, publicity-averse entrepreneur with a Ph.D. in operations research who built the fledgling TCI into the country's largest cable operator, gaining a reputation for ruthlessness along...
...members and friends, sweltering in the humid, 87 degreesF air, might have expected to be rewarded with a meal for their attendance. But after the ceremony, guests were offered only wine. Ames explained that he couldn't afford a fancy reception because the cost of his previous marriage's breakup had cleaned him out. Guests had no reason to doubt him. His divorce from Nancy, a fellow Central Intelligence Agency employee, had become final only 12 days earlier in New York City. In preceding months, Ames had complained bitterly to colleagues at the CIA that the long, messy divorce...