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Panelists praised the economic reforms of recently deceased Chinese paramount leader Deng Xiaoping last night at a forum sponsored by the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Rumors are growing that Deng Xiaoping, China's 92-year-old paramount leader and the architect of China's economic reforms may be dying -- or may already be dead. While there have been no reliable reports on Deng?s health status, U.S. officials paid the rumors more credence as President Jiang Zemin and Prime Minister Li Peng unexpectedly cut short countryside visits this weekend to return to Beijing. The Chinese government insisted on Tuesday that Deng's health was fairly good for a man of his years. "There has been no major change in Comrade Deng Xiaoping...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Rumors are growing that Deng Xiaoping, China's 92-year-old paramount leader and the architect of China's economic reforms may be dying -- or may already be dead. While there have been no reliable reports on Deng?s health status, U.S. officials paid the rumors more credence as President Jiang Zemin and Prime Minister Li Peng unexpectedly cut short countryside visits this weekend to return to Beijing. The Chinese government insisted on Tuesday that Deng's health was fairly good for a man of his years. "There has been no major change in Comrade Deng Xiaoping...
...which leads to what may be the most intriguing question of all: How does Consumer's Edge fit into Diller's long-range goals, which for big thinkers like him tend to amount to total world domination? Two years after his painful failures to merge QVC first with Paramount and then with CBS, Diller operates from a power base called Silver King Communications. It's a grab bag of second-tier media properties that includes the nation's sixth largest group of TV stations; the Home Shopping Network (HSN); the dormant production studio Savoy Pictures; and the Internet Shopping Network...
...CEOs who set them up? One can imagine--albeit with a bit of effort--some interactively televised descendant of Consumer's Edge and HSN merging with Silver King's stations and studio to become a force in 21st century media. In the absence of a brand name like Paramount or cbs, though, that would be a trick on a par with Diller's last one: building a fourth network on the backs of The Simpsons and Married...with Children...