Word: execs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After creating one of the Net's top brands, a company with a market value of some $20 billion, Pierre Omidyar hit the delete key. Months before eBay's IPO--the traditional media coronation for a Silicon Valley wunderkind--he stepped aside in favor of onetime Hasbro exec Meg Whitman. "I've obviously tried to push her to the forefront," he says. "Meg's the public face of the company." Omidyar moved to France in part to get in touch with his roots--he was born in Paris and lived there until he was six. But he's also working...
...this investigative reporter spends his free time reading French poetry and availing himself of other people's personal information. James likes to keep his eggs in many baskets; he'll fraternize with anyone from terrorists to Harvard suits to Kroks, but don t expect any personal revelations from this exec next year. He promises to make ed notes anonymous and as for Would You Rather, he'd rather just not play...
...Super-comper turned super-ed now turns super-exec. This girl's blood runs Crimson. From the Candyland games of her early days to more mature forays into the world of archives and admissions, Vicky's led a crump-free existence. And although she's recently tried to revamp herself as a vixen, her sweet giggle will always belie those naughty pics...
...control legislation to pass through Congress this summer, President Clinton has decided to take a page from the states' anti-tobacco playbook. The White House announced Tuesday that, along with the Department of Housing and Urban Development, it would sue gun manufacturers on behalf on HUD tenants. HUD chief exec Andrew Cuomo hit the morning TV news circuit Wednesday to say that his agency is riding shotgun on the suit because public housing residents are the principal victims of gun violence, both in terms of shootings and the climate of fear they live...
...gutsy, funny and by no means beautiful. Despite the occasional lapse into pimp cliches (we don't all have one), the writers have produced a realistic character who is not evil incarnate yet does not have the proverbial heart of gold. Could a prostitute end up as a studio exec? Who says they haven...