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Barry Diller sure thinks so. Two long years after the architect of the Fox Network departed his perch at QVC for exile in the Media Mogul Wilderness, the poker-faced, once-and-future content king is ready to reveal his latest card. It is Consumer's Edge, a software developer based in La Jolla, California, that hopes to earn a slice of the online commerce pie by offering what CEO Steve Tomlin calls "deep interviews"--extensive Q&As that match consumers with pretty much any product known to the free market...
...standards of last year's high-rolling presidential race, Donna Shalala's appearance at a Democratic dinner for business executives seemed like just another effort to lend star quality to one of Bill Clinton's ambitious fund-raising ventures. But to Alan Solomont, a Massachusetts nursing-home mogul who was host to the June 3 event in Washington, the Secretary of Health and Human Services shone brightest of all. A few weeks before the dinner, Solomont had visited Shalala with a team of lobbyists to press for less stringent enforcement of nursing-home regulations. Solomont, a leading Democratic fund raiser...
...nation's premier media companies (owner of newspapers and TV stations, as well as Newsweek magazine). In Personal History (Knopf; 642 pages; $29.95), her disarmingly candid and immensely readable autobiography, Graham not only chronicles that personal transformation with more honest self-analysis than probably any other media mogul ever; she also provides an invaluable inside glimpse of some of the most critical turning points in American journalism...
...comic premises go, this is not exactly a world-beater. But soon enough, the keepers--gentle souls all--are funnily up in arms defending their pets. A wandering tarantula motivates a genteel striptease, and the mean mogul gets his comeuppance. The script, by Cleese and Iain Johnstone, lacks Wanda's mean and giddy inventiveness, and the directors, Robert Young and Fred Schepisi, don't wind their material very tightly. Still, this good-natured movie is very much in the spirit of those ancient comedies from Ealing Film Studios in which nice, silly people defend some enclave of old-fashioned sanity...
...BILL GATES The Microsoft mogul gave $15 million to Harvard University, where he dropped out. This is part of a joint $25 million gift with Microsoft executive vice president Steve Ballmer--a Harvard graduate--to benefit research and teaching in computer science and electrical engineering. Of this, $20 million will be used to construct a research and teaching facility named after the donors' mothers. The remaining $5 million will endow a professorship. Gates and his wife, Melinda French Gates, also gave $12 million to the University of Washington to help pay for a proposed $52 million law school building that...