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...media market. Among the issues is whether the young Murdoch is acting alone through his private investment company, Illyria, or in part for News Corp., of which he remains a nonexecutive director. Having done the sums on Murdoch's estimated $1 billion equity contribution to the bid, business author Neil Chenoweth says, "For Lachlan to be doing what he's doing, family money has to be involved." Then again, Chenoweth concedes that it's unclear how much Murdoch's main backer, SPO Partners, a private investment firm based in San Francisco, is putting up. Lachlan is adamant: "This is completely...
...estimate is a $50 billion antiaging industry. Boomers are already the largest consumers of hair-coloring products, cosmetic dentistry and plastic surgery. That includes the men too. The American Society of Plastic Surgeons says men received 1 out of 10 procedures in 2006. New York City cosmetic surgeon Dr. Neil Sadick says up to a quarter of his patients are male, many of them boomers whose goal is to look good for the office...
Museum professionals have counterarguments. Some places--think of the Met, the Louvre or the National Gallery in London--are "universal museums," worth cherishing precisely because they permanently display the works of many cultures side by side. Neil MacGregor is the director of the British Museum, founded in 1753 as the first and now one of the greatest of those. "The idea," he says, "of having in one building things from the whole world, there for free, is just as important now as it was 250 years...
...Rivera, a Cuban musician; Lila R. Gleitman, a professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania; Bert W. O’Malley, a professor of molecular and cellular biology at Baylor College of Medicine; Cyril Ramaphosa, the former secretary general of the African National Congress; and Neil deGrasse Tyson ’80, a director at the American Museum of Natural History...
...unless you have a great school of engineering,” Venky said. “Computing, applied science, and engineering have become central—technology is so important these days—[its] the next English language.”Venky was selected by then University President Neil L. Rudenstine and then Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles in 1998 to build up Harvard’s presence in the applied sciences. “It was a delight, and I mean that, to have the opportunity to persuade Venky to come from Santa Barbara...