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Instead, he bought about 13% of QVC, the cable-TV retailer that is the Home Shopping Network's prime competitor. But he hadn't quite shaken his yen for upscale properties and in short order was using QVC to launch the exhaustively chronicled bidding war for Paramount that he lost to Viacom's Sumner Redstone. By the summer of 1994, Diller was describing a projected takeover of CBS as his "destiny." But Comcast, a cable company that owned a 15.5% stake in QVC, squelched the deal and then tendered its own offer to buy out Diller's share...
...walk more than a few feet before sitting down. A high school gym teacher had to serve as his body double for more than half his scenes. Yet the actor persisted, literally wearing his heart out: he died the day after he finished shooting. "I believe if he hadn't done the film," says his director, Michael Radford, "Massimo might possibly be alive today...
...what he needs to begin construction--and losing ground. Vacant, the land is declining in value. "It puts the applicant on a slippery slope," says Payne. "I have no income, I have no building, and I have a debt of more than $1,000 a month I hadn't had before the riots...
...Cornell hadn't beaten Harvard in 12 chances entering the 1995-96 season. With last night's 5-4 victory, though, the Big Red completed a sweep of this season's series with the Crimson...
...beautiful thing about the free market, though, is that it encourages innovation. My American history class hadn't taught us about Social Darwinism for nothing...