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...still responds directly to e-mails from buyers and sellers. A mother of two, Whitman knows that some of eBay's biggest customers are people who never thought they would touch a computer. She pays homage to them on Oprah as well as at trade shows. If a new eBay feature is unpopular, she'll pull it. When users complained about not being able to use the electronic payment service PayPal for eBay transactions, she bought PayPal for $1.5 billion. Which explains why they chant her name. And why this self-effacing star is the envy of just about everyone...
...circumstances surrounding the birth of a female infant in Kosciusko, Miss., on Jan. 29, 1954, were not promising. Present was the usual mix that had so often accumulated into a burden too heavy for a single-parent household like the one Oprah Winfrey grew up in. The state in which she was born had laws in place waiting to characterize her as unwelcome, to bar her participation in otherwise acceptable social activities, to shackle her to the residue of slavery and other injustices of the past. The simple truth is that her grandmother, her great-grandmother and all the great...
...ground had been set. The journey of Oprah Winfrey had begun. The babe, the child, the adolescent, the young woman--all their strengths were harnessed into a force of astonishing power that placed itself in the service of nature and the human family. That the world has changed in meaningful ways since 1954 is beyond question. Oprah and her activities were driving forces in many of those changes. Her enormously influential talk show, her philanthropic work with children in Africa and elsewhere, her popular book club and magazine, her empowering spiritual message, her contribution (by action and example) to improving...
Mississippi too seems to be mellowing out into a more congenial place than it was in 1954. That may also be partly due to the very special energy that is Oprah Winfrey--a courageous, funny, compassionate, well-informed, dazzlingly curious person, as down-to-earth and loving as any human being I've ever known. --BY SIDNEY POITIER, winner of the 1964 Academy Award for Best Actor in Lilies of the Field