Word: enthusiast
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...dissent. But BSkyB shareholders may want to stick around to see how the show plays out. After a mediocre early business career--he started a rap-music label and lost News Corp. money in a bad Internet play--James proved himself at the company's Star TV. A karate enthusiast, he transformed the lossmaking Asian satellite broadcaster into the largest private TV player in India and penetrated the booming China market with cheesy American-style reality police dramas, male beauty contests and wisecracking talk-show hosts. James "clearly has some significant achievements under his belt," says Simon Twiston Davies, chief...
...publisher of more than 250 specialty magazines like Motor Trend and Soap Opera Digest, named Conlin, 43, its CEO, ending a seven-month search. He had previously headed technology publisher International Data Group, where he helped launch the popular For Dummies book series. Conlin hopes to leverage Primedia's enthusiast titles in a new way, through toys. Gamemaker THQ will release a PC game under Primedia's Hot Rod name, while Radio Shack is selling a Super Street remote-controlled...
It’s not just the big names that Masters’ events draw that strengthen the “small school” feeling that Baller talked about. Deans and professors are accessible and engaged in undergraduate life. Kung, a yoga enthusiast, says she even does yoga with the Dean of Silliman College, Hugh Flick Jr. “Only at Yale can you stand on your head next to your Dean,” she says...
...Ivory Tower,” which debuted in 1991, had been on hiatus for three years when Brandon C. Presser ’05, a theater and television enthusiast, took on the role of executive producer for a revamped, updated version of the show...
That beleaguered film enthusiast wouldn’t be entirely off base. Before Good Will Hunting, before A Beautiful Mind, there was It’s My Turn—a decidedly lame 1980 flick in which Clayburgh plays Dr. Kate Gunzinger, a beautiful young math professor stuck in a frustrating romance with stuffy Charles Grodin. “At last, Mr. Wrong,” the video’s cover cries. Clayburgh cavorts and spars with bad boy Michael Douglas while struggling for a breakthrough proof that will, she insists, put her on par with Euclid and Newton...