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...Will Eisner, who died two years ago at 87, was a force in the medium - two media, really, comic strips and graphic novels - and as both an artist and an entrepreneur, for more than six decades. TIME.com maven Andrew Arnold calls him "one of comix' greatest forward-thinkers." In the biz from his teens (everybody started young in comics), Eisner wanted to break out of the newspaper-illustration straitjacket, saying, "A daily strip to me is like trying to conduct an orchestra in a telephone booth." So at 23, on June 2, 1940, he introduced The Spirit, which...
...look into party finances after four businessmen nominated for peerages in 2005 were blocked by the House of Lords Appointments Commission. The body was concerned that the men had recently handed over large amounts of cash to the ruling Labour Party. A spokesman for one of the men, entrepreneur Sir Gulam Noon, claimed Noon had been encouraged by Blair's chief fundraiser Lord Levy to omit details of a $460,000 loan to the party from his application...
...look into party finances after four businessmen nominated for peerages in 2005 were blocked by the House of Lords Appointments Commission. The body was concerned that the men had recently handed over large amounts of cash to the ruling Labour Party. A spokesman for one of the men, entrepreneur Sir Gulam Noon, claimed Noon had been encouraged by Levy to omit details of a $460,000 loan to the party from his application...
Some industry experts thought that Smith was justified in driving Perot away. Said Bernard Addo, an auto analyst for Manhattan's Argus Research: Perot may have been a skillful entrepreneur, but entrepreneurship and team management are two different things. Perot was hurting GM's stock by publicly bashing the company's management." Other observers were appalled at the buyout. GM officials got rid of Perot, contended Mary Anne Devanna, director of research at the Columbia Business School Management Institute, "to protect their own hides. Their careers, big bonuses and fancy perks all depend on maintaining the status...
...more than a year, Virgin America's application at the Department of Transportation (DOT) has been enmeshed in a cantankerous debate about who, exactly, controls the airline. Richard Branson, the British entrepreneur who has plastered the Virgin logo on everything from record stores to cell phones, longed to start a U.S. branch of his renegade Virgin airlines but was kept out of the market by a law that says foreigners can't own more than 25% of a U.S.-based carrier. Nor can they run the show from behind the scenes...