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Thayer resident Nicole L. Eisner said someone took $20 cash and a bottle of glow paint from her unlocked room, then used the paint to vandalize the door of the room below her. Friedberg said that $18 was also taken from his room...
Last year, as chief financial officer of Walt Disney Co., Bollenbach helped CEO Michael Eisner engineer the Mouse's $19 billion buyout of Capital Cities/ABC. In so doing, he tackled Disney's urgent problem: where to spend Mickey's megamillions. Disney was making movies, expanding its theme parks and adding to its cruise business. But it needed something bigger than boats to make best use of the company's money. Says he: "Honestly, it doesn't make sense to spend $1 billion to build two cruise ships that can be capitalized [paid for] in 120 days." Making shrewd...
...Biogeography, which he wrote with the late ecologist Robert MacArthur, provides the scientific bedrock for understanding the decline of ecosystems. The second concept, laid out in his 1975 book Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, argues that social behaviors ranging from warfare to altruism have a genetic component. Cornell biologist Thomas Eisner describes Wilson as one of the "prime synthesizing minds in the world today...
DISNEY CEO MICHAEL EISNER ABC, now owned by Disney, rejects pilot for Eisner-hosted Disney Family Movie...
Katzenberg, who reanimated Disney by honchoing such megahits as Aladdin and The Lion King, says Disney stiffed him out of $250 million in unpaid bonuses. The high drama is Hollywood's favorite feud--between Katzenberg and Disney chairman Michael Eisner. Katzenberg stormed out in 1994 when Eisner refused to promote him to president. Last week a feisty Katzenberg was calling himself "the $250 million...