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Huffington has evolved from political wife to policy entrepreneur, a one-woman think tank with more clout than her husband Michael--an oil-company heir and former California Congressman--ever dreamed of. In one year, she has won her own weekly cable-TV talk show, co-hosted CNN's Crossfire, testified twice before Congress and become a "senior fellow" at the Progress and Freedom Foundation, a think tank associated with Newt Gingrich, where she heads up her own Center for Effective Compassion, which promotes private giving to replace the welfare state. With all that, she has become the goddess...
...distance phone service, the recently acquired McCaw Cellular phone subsidiary, and credit cards. Name: still AT&T. Revenues: $49 billion a year, based on 1994 figures. Profits: more than three-quarters of the $4.7 billion AT&T earned last year. Chief executive: Allen. (He has named Alex Mandl, his heir apparent, to oversee the transition to the slimmed-down AT&T.) Employees...
Perhaps nobody will be happier about the wane of the English tourist season than Prince William. The heir to the British throne just began his first year at Eton, long a side attraction to Windsor Castle. But now, according to British papers, double-decker bus tours slow when they pass the school and local entrepreneurs sell T shirts reading where there's a will...
DIED. WALTER HAAS, 79, heir of jeans maker Levi Strauss, beloved by Oaklanders for acquiring the A's in 1980 to keep the baseball team on home turf; in San Francisco...
Easy Rawlins is a private citizen, not strictly speaking a private eye. He is also a black man. But these two significant--and dramatically potent--differences aside, novelist Walter Mosley's creation is the truest heir we have yet had to Raymond Chandler's immortal Philip Marlowe. And writer-director Carl Franklin's cool, expert adaptation of Devil in a Blue Dress, Mosley's first novel, evokes the spirit of '40s film noir more effectively than any movie since Chinatown...