Word: ober
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What if Alexander had died at Granicus? Goodbye to all the conquests of Alexander the Great, says Princeton historian Josiah Ober. The Persian Empire would have overtaken the known world. The great promise of Hellenism would have lost its way; the growing Roman Empire would have atrophied; Judea would have remained a backwater, Jesus merely "a local religious figure," and Christianity and Judaism insignificant provincial oddities. There would have been no need for a Martin Luther, no Reformation, no Renaissance, no Enlightenment, no Western culture...
RESIGNING. ERIC OBER, 53, president of CBS News; in New York City. Ober walks the plank after five rocky years at the helm, piloting the network's news division through the rough seas of cost cuts, declining ratings and the ill-fated pairing of shipmates Connie Chung and Dan Rather...
...permission. When his lawyer asked for a promise that Wigand would be indemnified not only against potential libel suits but also against any lawsuit that might ensue from his breaking of a confidentiality agreement with his former company, the CBS lawyers balked. On their advice, CBS News president Eric Ober decided to scuttle the interview...
...however, Cruise was full of praise for the Hasty Pudding and enjoyed the royal treatment he got from Harvard for the day. He had dinner at Locke-Ober with the top Pudding officers and spent time talking to students involved in the production. Dean of the Law School Robert Clark gave him a tour of the campus and a certificate in honor of "outstanding contributions to the reputation of Harvard Law School." As Cruise himself so deftly put it, "It is a relief that my lasting contribution to the world of entertainment has nothing to do with the fact that...
...executives Eric Ober and Howard Stringer suggest, implausibly, that the co-anchorship was Rather's idea; Rather recalls that Stringer broached the notion. But even Ober, for all his gush about freeing Dan to report from the field, admits the goal is better numbers. In the 12 years since Rather took over for Walter Cronkite, the show's share of the audience has shriveled by a third. Meanwhile, Tom Brokaw's piece has shrunk only 10%, and Peter Jennings' has held steady -- heroic achievements in this twilight-of-the-networks...