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...chunk of gray and pink rock with the same text written on it in both Greek and Egyptian hieroglyphics, which no one had yet deciphered. Unlocking hieroglyphics was Champollion's great work, and Meyerson tells the story as a passionate linguistic love affair. After finally solving the mystery, Champol lion collapsed in a coma for eight days...
StubHub's start was a classic entrepreneurial moment. One night a few years back, Eric Baker, a Harvard grad, was stumped in trying to score tickets to take his girlfriend to The Lion King. Frustration led to innovation after Baker figured out the math of the secondary market and turned it into a business. StubHub moved an estimated $60 million worth of tickets in 2003 and also turned its first profit. "StubHub's concept centralizes a big, fragmented market," says David Kirsch, a University of Maryland business professor who studies both the suckers and the survivors of the dotcom...
...billion purchase of the Fox Family Channel, which was renamed the ABC Family Channel. Over at Disney's animation division, Comcast says, it would reignite a legendary workshop that Eisner downsized. "When the division was firing on all cylinders," said Burke, "it cranked out hits like The Lion King and Beauty and the Beast, which flowed through the rest of the company and re-energized everything. Disney all but abdicated that business...
...Eisner has repelled corporate talent, particularly anyone with CEO potential. Disney has suffered an exodus of executives during his tenure. Its cast members no longer include execs like Paul Pressler, now at Gap; Geraldine Laybourne, who quit to co-found Oxygen Media; and Jeffrey Katzenberg, the man behind The Lion King, who co-founded DreamWorks. Comcast's No. 2 executive, Burke, is a fast-track escapee. He spent 12 years at Disney and proved himself a skilled executive by recharging Disney's consumer-products division (it faltered after he left) and reviving Euro Disney (another recent relapse), then working...
DIED. JASON RAIZE, 28, New York--born stage and television actor best known for his role as the adult Simba in the original Broadway production of The Lion King; a suicide; in Yass, Australia...