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...group of fellows, culled from 75 original applicants from around the world, in the past has included satirist Al Franken ’73 and broadcast journalist Connie Chung...
...wild ride for Osama bin Laden and his followers: They've wrought mayhem in America's political and financial capitals; been driven from their Afghan sanctuaries and forced to duck and dive as scores of their top operatives have been arrested or killed; launched new attacks and continued to broadcast propaganda tapes. Most important, they've managed to survive. After all, as Henry Kissinger once observed, the conventional army loses by not winning, but the guerrilla wins by not losing...
...attacks over the past two years appear to have been centrally coordinated across national borders - the most difficult type of operation to mount under the new security conditions - but others appear to have been local initiatives by al-Qaeda associates acting on fire-at-will proclamations of the sort broadcast by al-Jazeera on Wednesday. Al-Qaeda has not simply decentralized its structure, analysts have noted, it has begun to assume the form not simply of an organization but of a growing movement or ideology, among young Muslims embracing bin Laden's idea that the West is at war with...
...year it reported figures. The ultimate secret ingredient is stardust, which is why Jean-Louis hired Claude "Coco" Bakonyi as schmoozer in chief. Bakonyi handled meet-and-greet chores for TV station Canal Plus, and made sure every guest who appeared on the station's popular Nulle Part Ailleurs broadcast ended up at Costes afterward. "We're not a palace, and we don't have the biggest rooms, so it's important that when they come here, they're among friends," says the man Johnny Depp calls Papa. So when Dustin Hoffman comes through town and shows...
Added: Five Universal Studios theme parks broadcast network. NBC would run the new company, which would have estimated annual revenues of about $13 billion. Vivendi would keep 20% of the new firm. In return, it would receive $3.8 billion in cash and reduce its debt by $1.6 billion - less cash than Vivendi's original price tag, but a deal nonetheless. The lead actors are crowing over their triumph. "It was a long struggle," concedes Bob Wright, chairman and chief executive of NBC, who will head the company called NBC Universal if the deal goes through. "We want...