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...YOUNG, 63, governor of South Korea's South Cholla province, of injuries sustained from jumping off a bridge into the Han River; in Seoul. Park was under investigation by the Seoul District Public Prosecutor's Office for suspected corruption while he was president of the National Health Insurance Corp. His is the fourth apparent suicide in the past year of a Korean business or political leader suspected of graft or bribery...
...What's good enough for the stars is, of course, appealing to the rest of us. Some 26 million Americans are on a hard-core low-carb diet right now. And 70 million more limit their carb intake without formally dieting, according to a new poll by Opinion Dynamics Corp...
...often said--sometimes scornfully, sometimes admiringly, but always with a hint of awe--that Rupert Murdoch has exercised more power over a longer tenure than any business leader in the world today. The chairman and CEO of News Corp. is too politic to make such a claim himself, but he tacitly acknowledges its validity. When asked what he has learned about being so powerful in the U.S., he smiles and says, "You make a lot of enemies...
Murdoch's critics are certainly legion. Most of them are fixated, in this election year, on Fox News and its conservative agenda. But in terms of Murdoch's real influence--not to mention his bottom line--nothing emanating from Roger Ailes' cable channel remotely compares to News Corp.'s $6.6 billion takeover of satellite broadcaster DirecTV. The deal, approved by regulators in December, extends Murdoch's globe-spanning satellite empire to North America; bolsters his strategy of marrying distribution and content; and seems to have triggered, as his maneuvers often do, another tectonic shift in the communications landscape...
...April, Murdoch announced that he was moving News Corp.'s official base of operations from Australia to New York City--thus completing his Americanization, which began 19 years ago when he became a U.S. citizen. With Murdoch now 73, his reign might be seen to be nearing its end; his two sons Lachlan and James stand poised to take his place at the company's helm. But the old man still seems frisky and in no hurry to step aside. And until he does, he'll continue to play the role he clearly relishes: powerful, vilified and, most...