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...Geraldine Laybourne is unveiling the answer. During 15 years at Nick, Laybourne made a tiny kids' channel into an omnipresent part of youths' lives; in 1998, after an unsatisfying two-year stint at Disney/ABC, she was ready to strike out on her own. So what's an accomplished TV exec to do? She doesn't just start a high-profile cable channel from scratch--with almost all original programming--when it's been years since a new basic-cable channel has become a hit. She doesn't just enter the risky field of new media. She doesn't just...
...Like Bill Bradley 11 Perpetrate 12 Windsor's prov. 17 Space-bar neighbor 19 Belfry denizen 20 "Hello" or "Goodbye" 21 Send to Siberia 22 Freeh men? 23 Elemental suffix 24 Second Amendment defender: abbr. 26 Org. that sued Koch Industries for $30M for oil spills 27 Time Warner exec Turner 28 "___ longa, vita brevis" 30 Some musical ensembles 32 According to 35 Part of D.J.I.A. 37 Ed McMahon intro opener 38 Al, now 39 Seinfeld network 40 Antidiscrimination agcy. 41 ___ Zapata! (Brando flick) 43 Nobelist Wiesel 44 Jiffies 45 Take a whack at 47 Suffix with press or script...
...design style: eve.com looks like Vogue; iVillage.com like that side table where you throw your purse and the mail when you get home from work. But in substance, they're all operating from the same playbook: cram your site with information arrayed as efficiently as possible for the busy exec who needs to find an idea for her kid's Halloween costume during her 15-min., yogurt-at-her-desk lunch break. "Men are content to explore and play games with this technology," asserts Sarah Cabot, co-founder of the women's-tech site SheClicks.com "Women want to solve problems...
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...
...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...