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...Tsinghua, was a confidant. Thornton has insisted that he's focused on teaching, but don't expect a globe-trotting rainmaker to spend all his time holding office hours or grading papers. Besides his ties to Goldman, Thornton sits on the boards of Ford, Intel and two News Corp. subsidiaries, British Sky Broadcasting and Hughes, the parent company of DirecTV. (Star TV, also owned by News Corp., is one of two Western stations broadcast into China.) "He's looking forward to slowing down a bit," says Jeffery Harte, a brokerage analyst at Sandler O'Neill & Partners, "but I expect...
...papers, is Murdoch's 30-year-old son James. For many public companies, such a move would be considered drastic for its blatant nepotism. But this tasted like vintage Murdoch. For decades the global mogul has made a habit of replacing successful bosses within his vast $17.5 billion News Corp. empire (which owns 35.4% of BSkyB). But even if it's in character, Ball's removal, if true, raises serious questions. After all, BSkyB wasn't falling, so why mess with a winning formula? Or is Ball leaving of his own accord? Does he have a better offer? Is James...
...tools (Monitor MindBase, LifeMatrix) are enough to get privacy advocates worked up. But researchers say they are only putting to more effective use information that consumers surrendered when they used credit cards, registered on websites or responded to questionnaires. And marketers keep raising the stakes. Personicx, launched by Axciom Corp. in 2002 and using information from public records, third-party research, product-warranty cards and other sources, is designed to be updated monthly to reflect such life-changing events as the birth of a child or a job promotion. The next objective is to be able to identify an individual...
Daniel Benjamin is senior fellow at the Center for Strategic & International Studies, and Steven Simon is senior analyst at the Rand Corp. They are the authors of The Age of Sacred Terror (Random House...
That said, it isn't likely to happen. Bruce Hoffman, a Rand Corp. terrorism analyst, says that setting off a systemwide collapse with a physical attack that cuts through all the backup systems and redundancies would be technically difficult. The terrorists would need an uncommonly detailed knowledge of U.S. facilities and sophisticated engineering expertise. "Utilities are vulnerable," says Gary Seifert of the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory, "but not to systemwide outages, without a lot of skill...