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Bush and Winnick claim that they don't recall exactly what was said at the reception. But there is no forgetting the coziness of Global Crossing's co-chairman, Lodwrick Cook, with the Bush family. A director of the elder Bush's presidential library, Cook gave the G.O.P. $325,000 during George W.'s 2000 race and has expanded his ties to Bush's Administration. Sources tell TIME that Cook met with Commerce Secretary Don Evans last June and brought up a bitter legacy of the Clinton years--the $7.2 million fee Global Crossing had to pay for running...
...notorious big spender ("I did not go over budget [at Talk]," she insisted to TIME), and in just 2 1/2 years, Talk's losses swelled to an estimated $50 million. There was friction between Brown and her backers, Hearst executives and Harvey Weinstein, the hard-charging Miramax co-chairman. While Talk actually increased its ad pages and revenue in 2001, the post-Sept. 11 economic slump appeared to deliver the coup de grace. Said Talk Media president Ron Galotti, "It became fairly bleak for someone...not part of a big corporate conglomerate...
...resist. But when he woke up, he gave himself up without a fight." Perhaps not a surprising reaction from the multimillionaire businessman who received a warm hug from Jakarta's chief of police when he was brought in to police headquarters. "His capture was orchestrated," concludes Neta Pane, co-chairman of Indonesia Police Watch. "I think the police have known all along where he was and were only waiting for the right moment to bring...
Hasso Plattner SAP Co-chairman and CEO 57, German www.sap.com...
...agencies that share antiterrorism responsibility, as well as their patrons on Capitol Hill. Bureaucracies have a long history of outlasting the "czars" who are brought in to oversee them. "I know a great number of these guys who were czars--energy, drugs," says former Senator Warren Rudman, the Republican co-chairman of a blue-ribbon commission on terrorism. "They start out with great fanfare, but pretty soon the President gets busy, and they're talking to a staff assistant...