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Enter Matt. By 1995 he had taught Jewish mysticism at the university level, written a book comparing Cabala and scientific cosmology, and translated some Zohar excerpts. Nevertheless he was stunned when Margot Pritzker, wife of the chairman of the Hyatt Corp., who was studying the book, offered to bankroll a full translation. "I told her, optimistically, that it might take 18 years," Matt says. "And she said, 'You're not scaring...
...doing what I'm supposed to be doing," Henry Miller admits with a laugh. In fact, Miller, 58, a former Xerox Corp. executive who was downsized two years ago, isn't even in the right realm. After spending more than three decades in the impersonal, male-dominated corporate world, Miller now finds himself in women's territory--and he's having the time of his life. He is running a business in a traditionally female-run field: the boarding, training and grooming of dogs. His Boom Towne Canine Center in Farmington, N.Y., is heading for 2005 sales...
...danced more carefully to Beijing's tune. Soon after his provocative comment, China's leaders insisted that he remove the BBC from Star TV's menu of channels after it aired a program critical of Chairman Mao Zedong. Murdoch complied, and has gone further since. On his orders, News Corp.'s publishing arm, HarperCollins, dropped a book written by Chris Patten, Hong Kong's last British Governor, in which Patten was critical of Beijing. In 1999 Murdoch even derided the Dalai Lama, Beijing's longtime foe, as "a very political old monk shuffling around in Gucci shoes." News Corp. hired...
...that goodwill, however, isn't paying off. Murdoch was testing the legal boundaries in China, where foreign TV broadcasters cannot distribute their programming without government permission. Uniformed officers raided News Corp.'s Beijing offices in June and confiscated financial records and equipment. Calling the investigation a "big and serious case," the government is focusing on a company registered to News Corp. employees with regard to its role in leasing satellite-TV channels in China. And China's State Administration of Radio, Film and Television terminated a deal that put News Corp. programming on a nationwide satellite channel based...
...living rooms to Western culture. Multinational media companies are salivating over the $3.4 billion in TV advertising carried on networks in China last year, only 6% of which went to foreign firms, according to Vivek Couto, a Hong Kong--based media consultant. But government restrictions limit some News Corp. channels to the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou, luxury hotels, top government offices and approved apartment buildings. (Time Warner, owner of TIME, sold its controlling stake in a channel that also broadcast to Guangzhou in 2003.) Meanwhile, Beijing has left Disney in the cold by refusing to approve any more foreign...