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...buyout in 1987. A Harvard M.B.A. and former chief executive at HBO, Biondi had a style that seemed to mesh well with that of the boss: Redstone, the volatile, confrontational owner; Biondi, the even-tempered manager--Redstone's "secret weapon," in the words of a New Yorker profile by Ken Auletta a year...
...Nigerian military government's recent execution of nine antigovernment activists, including environmental and human rights activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, has elicited international outrage and condemnation. Most notably, the United States and several other countries have withdrawn their ambassadors to Nigeria...
...conservative political operatives that calls itself the Alliance to Revitalize California. The group, formed last January, includes Michael Johnson, a onetime Nader's Raider; Bill Zimmerman, a former campaign director for liberal state senator Tom Hayden; Tom Proulx, the co-founder of the software company Intuit Inc.; and Ken Khachigian, a prominent adviser to Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan. As Khachigian says, "If you told me I'd be working with Zimmerman someday, I'd have said, 'No way!' We are polar opposites in ideology...
...some investors think the technology group is due for a bear market. "It's a cyclical business, but it's being treated like a growth business," says Ken Heebner, manager for the Consolidated Growth Management family of funds. "We are over the top of the cyclical curve. I predict a very big decline over the next 12 months." And some professionals think such stocks are not worth the anxiety. "The stocks are absolutely fascinating to watch," says Eugene Peroni Jr., a market analyst with Janney Montgomery Scott, "but you just have to dismiss them and perhaps go into some less...
...death of Ken Saro Wiwa together with eight other minority-right activists is part of the wider Nigerian crisis in which the military government continues to resist a transition to civilian rule and to a democratic government. Saro Wiwa himself described the present Nigerian leaders as "mindless, stone-age dictators, addicted to blood . . . They are daylight robbers who kill for money...