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...find that, all of a sudden, I am a member of a class-CEOS-that is held in lower repute than priests." ED SCHMIDT JR., chief executive of the Internet search engine Google Inc., on the declining status of business leaders...
...York Times v. Tasini, in which Keller represented the newspaper and other defendants (including Time Inc., publisher of TIME), the Supreme Court ruled that unless specified in contracts, newspaper and magazine publishers do not automatically own the right to resell freelance contributors' stories to such digital databases as LexisNexis. The publishers have since removed the freelancers' articles from the databases. Keller maintained that such rulings damage the public interest by withholding rights from the parties best positioned to publish works in the new medium...
Those of us employed by corporations whose destiny has, in recent years, been substantially determined by stock prices understand all too well the pressures facing our Person of the Week - the American investor, on whose slumped shoulders a troublesome burden has been placed. Last year, the fortunes of America Inc. depended on the willingness of the nation's consumers to keep whipping out the plastic even as jobs, bonuses and retirement funds were disappearing by the hour. But not even the consumers' continued spending was enough to prevent U.S. corporations shedding more than $2.5 trillion in market capitalization this year...
...have a longtime affinity for the story. Novelist Walter Kirn, who lives near the Yellowstone River, which Clark traveled on his homeward trip, writes for us about the tale's creation of a kind of utopian ideal for America's journey through history. Author Landon Jones, a former Time Inc. magazine editor who is making a second career out of his fascination with the explorers (he also serves as a director of the National Council of the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial), gives us a profile of the co-captains, showing how much they depended not only on heroism but also...
Monopolist. Bully. Cowboy. John Malone has heard it all before. As he dominated the U.S. cable-TV industry for much of the past three decades, the CEO of Denver-based TeleCommunications Inc. (TCI) was called plenty of names, including some that can't be printed here...