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...burst of activity makes Murdoch a formidable force in the fast-evolving world of media alliances and the race to develop an electronic superhighway into the home. It pits the Australian-born mogul and his partners against such giants as Time Warner, AT&T and cable-firm Viacom International, which are rushing to build interactive systems of their own. At the same time, the star tv and BSkyB deals enable Murdoch to bestride the television world. When asked whether he intends to build a global TV network, Murdoch booms out, "Oh, absolutely...
...present agreement is not accompanied by a burst of brotherly emotion on both sides. If anything, Israelis and Palestinians may be feeling like patients awakening from an anesthetized slumber after amputation surgery, discovering with pain and frustration that things are never going to be the same again. This is the time for well-meaning governments and individuals outside the region to stop wagging their fingers in disapproval and instead to consider the prompt incorporation of a peaceful Middle East into larger security and economic systems, thus helping both sides to overcome some of their fears. This is the time...
When the deal was finally done, exhausted negotiators jumped to their feet and burst into applause. After weeks of debate and wrangling, representatives of South Africa's political parties, black and white, agreed last week to create a 20-member, multiracial, multiparty transition council -- with blacks in the majority -- to supervise the existing government until free elections are held on April 27. For the first time, the watchdog council will give 30 million black South Africans a measure of power and legitimacy within the country's political system; its installation, perhaps as soon as the middle of October, will definitively...
Another year of Crimson sports is about to start. The glowing ember that has quietly burned for three months will burst into flame anytime now, and the games will begin again...
...year they forbade his merger discussions with Capital Cities/ABC. The Castle Rock and New Line deals displeased his Time Warner board members, but evidently not enough to make them raise a serious ruckus. So Turner's movie-studio obsession has come full circle: buying into Hollywood now is a burst of old-fashioned Turner independence, the kind of high-priced, seat-of-the-pants action he has been denied as the result of his last, overleveraged Hollywood plunge seven years ago. It's his party and he'll buy if he wants...