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...Bill Gates had been entered into this contest, he would not have even become a finalist," he said...
...denied that Clarkson is not the team it was nine months ago. The loss of Hobey Baker finalist Todd White tore an extensive hole in the Golden Knight attack, and early season losses to Yale and Princeton did little to impress the skeptics. On paper that put Harvard in perfect position to dispose of the home team and extend its series lead...
...Michael Jensen, his starched-collar financial adviser at Citicorp's private banking office in Geneva, who in turn gets on another phone with Citi's brokers in New York City. "At that point," Jensen will later recall, "His Highness said, 'Buy!'" First the prince supplies the names of four finalist companies. Then he supplies the figure: $1.2 billion. Jensen sucks his breath back out of the phone and places the order. "Everybody on Wall Street is crying, but I was prepared for this," says Alwaleed, palpably confident and cool. Jokes his Saudi adviser Mustafa al Hejailan: "With the prince...
...that he now owns about 5% of News Corp., the global media conglomerate run by Rupert Murdoch, making him the second largest individual holder, behind Murdoch. Alwaleed also bought some 5% of Web-browser maker Netscape Communications, and a chunk of chip and cell-phone maker Motorola. The fourth finalist, another well-known American company, according to the prince, is still being bought...
...Actors like Matt are in as good a position as they've ever been," observes Coppola, who chose Damon over fellow finalist Edward Norton for the lead in the new John Grisham star vehicle. "They've become the trademarks of the movies, not the directors. There's barely a movie that can be made without Cage or Ford or Pitt. Now they determine what movies get made." As for Damon's qualifications for joining the short list, Coppola says, "Matt has got the gift--and he's a writer in his own right. That gives him something special." That plus...