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...being respected and admired. The nice thing is that no one gives me any abuse in Jags. That's part of having a glamorous side to it. Everyone has too much respect for it to abuse it. If I drive it fast, people admire it rather than throw a comment back. Not many brands get away with that...
...That last comment was interpreted by several analysts as a reference to News Corp.'s purchase of MySpace.com, a deal that Viacom was seen as having missed. Though Redstone was equally impatient with Viacom's lagging stock price, which is down 10% this year - compared to sister company CBS, which is up more than 10% - his muscle-flexing didn't immediately cheer investors. Just after the announcement, Merrill Lynch's Jessica Reif Cohen, an influential entertainment industry research analyst , issued a critical report downgrading her rating on Viacom to "neutral" from "buy" because she said "significant uncertainty" remains about...
...could be right. ?Tom Freston is a friend and business associate of 20 years and is one of the most admired and respected executives in the entertainment business, and I for one will miss him greatly,? Dreamworks SKG co-founder David Geffen said in a statement. (Geffen refused to comment on a CNBC story, which a cable channel reporter attributed to Redstone, that Geffen called the Viacom chairman following the news about Freston and suggested that he buy Dreamworks Animation and hire its chief, Jeffrey Katzenberg, to run Viacom as well...
...Tuesday afternoon, Summers had not yet contributed to the blog. But the first public comment posted on the blog made an apparent reference to the fallout following the former president’s January 2005 comments on women in science...
...puzzled by Walter Kirn's depiction of Princeton. While I cannot comment on the Princeton of the 1980s, when Kirn was there, I do know that the Princeton of today offers intellectual stimulation that far surpasses the philosopher-name-dropping that Kirn suggests is the end point of a Princeton education. The "X factor" is not egotism but motivation. The established alumni networks may help down the line, but the attention that Princeton's professors give to their undergraduates is the school's most appealing trait. And I hope that Kirn reported the cheating he saw to the Honor Committee...