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ROBERT IGER ABC boss/rumored heir apparent at Disney is knocked down a rung by Ovitz hiring...
...heir apparent was leading a double life. To his colleagues, Whitacre was a dedicated company man who supervised a fast-growing division that extracts profitable nutrients like vitamins from grain. But he also served as an FBI mole in an investigation of possible price-fixing at the firm. According to a story broken last week by the Wall Street Journal, Whitacre alerted federal authorities to possible collusion between ADM and other companies in 1992, and was outfitted with a briefcase with a hidden recorder. Since then, the Journal said, the FBI has collected audio- and videotapes of hundreds of meetings...
...same people -- Jerry Zipkin served for half a century as party guest, escort and confidant of socially prominent, financially comfortable women (Betsy Bloomingdale, Pat Buckley). In the '30s his friend Somerset Maugham modeled the snobbish Elliot Templeton of The Razor's Edge on the fashion-obsessed real estate heir. But Zipkin's greatest coup was his relationship with Nancy Reagan. He was with the First Family on the night they captured that title; in the following years, Mrs. Reagan dished and danced with Zipkin so regularly that he became known as "the other man in her life...
...torments of two women caught in their society's lunacy. Francisca, a young woman in love with a priest, is found out and routinely and grotesquely tortured; Maria, the new bride of the Spanish king, is tortured in a different way by the couple's inability to produce an heir. Skow notes that although the parallel tales of the two women are a bit awkward, the novel is redeemed by Harrison's chilling prose about women and men trapped in societal malignancy...
...step into the shoes of the nonagenarians who joined Mao on the Long March and have have ruled the country since 1949. Jiang is the third would-be Deng successor in nearly 15 years, and most Chinese wonder whether he will be any luckier than Mao's chosen heir, Hua Guofeng...