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...part of 18 months he flirted with the idea of buying troubled Apple Computer, a deal that fizzled last week when Ellison said he was backing off, at least for now. Instead, Valley insiders say Oracle, with close to $1 billion in cash on hand, is considering a rich joint venture with Korean conglomerate LG Electronics. Both are ambitious deals, carefully calibrated to morph Oracle from a corporate-software provider into a consumer-electronics powerhouse. Says Evan Bauer, a vice president at GIGA Information Group, a Connecticut consulting firm: "Larry is an eccentric, but he's not stupid...
...would also help compensate for a big Murdoch deal that seems to be falling apart: his joint venture with EchoStar to create a new satellite TV service called Sky. The service, announced with much fanfare in February, would beam 500 channels of digital programming to small home dishes. Because Murdoch's service would have the ability to deliver local over-the-air stations (which other satellite services cannot do), Sky could take significant numbers of customers away from cable. The prospect so alarmed rival media companies that they flooded Washington with lobbyists to try to stop Murdoch on regulatory grounds...
...their part, students are depicted as at their most alive when they have as little to do with school as possible. Huck and Holden light out for their respective territories; Ferris Bueller is the god of glorious truancy. Or make an Animal House, and trash the joint. School is anticreativity, antifreedom, anti-American--an attitude only logically contradicted by a society that insists on higher education for all and accreditations up to the eyeballs...
...been a trying couple of weeks for Harrison Ford. First, his leading lady in the upcoming Six Days/Seven Nights, Anne Heche, overnight became the world's second most famous lesbian. Then he learned that Fox and Paramount want to open their joint $200 million production, Titanic, on July 25--right up against his big summer picture, Air Force One, being released by Columbia...
Honig has been offered tenure at Northwestern University with a joint appointment at the American Bar Foundation, a Chicago research organization. Honig has not yet decided whether to accept the offer