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...played a role in ousting Schadt, his handpicked successor, and then dismantled much of what Schadt had set in motion. Two weeks after Grune returned, the company pulled the plug on a costly Internet search engine called LookSmart. "Over the last few months Grune has basically disowned everything his predecessor did," says Dennis McAlpine, an analyst with Josephthal & Co. Digest says it is just returning to basics. "In the last few years we drastically reduced our testing," says Thomas Gardner, vice president of U.S. marketing. "Our general philosophy was to focus on new initiatives and not on our core business...
...estate management company, and their two daughters, Carolyn and Cynthia. A son, Randall, is an undergraduate at Duke. Starr comes to Little Rock a couple of days each week, dividing his time otherwise between Washington and New York City, where he teaches a law course. And while Starr's predecessor as Whitewater investigator, Robert Fiske, hired a mix of government prosecutors and private attorneys, Starr leans more heavily toward two-fisted federal attorneys from New York City, Miami and Los Angeles. With no ties to the locals and a single goal--get the goods on Whitewater, whatever they...
Today, the 1998 Winter Olympics begin in Nagano, Japan. Like their predecessor, the 1994 Games in Lillehammer, Norway, these Games brought drama and controversy to their site city well before the athletes themselves arrived for warm-ups and trials. However, unlike personal battles like the Tonya Harding-Nancy Kerrigan face-off that captivated the international press for months, the controversies surrounding Nagano are more impersonal and business-like. They highlight, if not the difference between East and West, then at least the difference in national styles and preferences that the Olympics always, perhaps unwillingly, bring into focus...
Intentionally or not, Johnson emerges as Branch's leading tragic figure. Unlike his privileged predecessor, the old Texas New Dealer knew the stink of poverty and racism. John F. Kennedy may have charmed the multitudes, but he did not impress King and other black leaders with his refusal to push hard for civil rights legislation. Johnson, a public relations catastrophe, did the right thing by ramming through the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The war, of course, would swallow his presidency and all other issues. That point is powerfully dramatized by the gathering of revolutionizing forces: television, the bringer...
...managing editor of today no longer has the superhuman responsibilities of his predecessor, and the copy box has been replaced by wires and networking. Nobody yells "Carp-e-e," although choicer epithets are often used for a dilatory night editor. The practice of releasing unpublished stories to the public press, which had already been suspended once James wrote his article, died a natural death from old age somewhere in the 1920s or 1930s, its grave unmarked. But candidates still botch stories and give "wonderful excuses," and the flavor of a real newspaper is still there...