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...replacing her. The hot, young and female programming exec who at 32 landed the top entertainment spot at ABC on the strength of birthing "Friends" at NBC was "reorganized out of a job before she even left her job," says TIME television writer James Poniewozik. "In Disney?s ongoing quest to take advantage of the vertical integration potential of getting Disney-produced shows on the network it owned, a development person just didn?t figure in." Yet Tarses, dogged by criticism and rumors of her impending doom almost from the moment her tenure began in 1996, never really made...
...There?s a poignancy to it, the fact that he?s spent six years on this quest, never held another job in all that time," he says. "And there?s also something self-delusional about it. You have some scenario in mind in which you?re about to catch fire, if only this would happen, if only that would happen. But sometimes, it never does. The voters rejected him last time, they rejected him this time. So it shouldn?t surprise us too much." It?s a sign of this year?s supercharged cycle that even a campaign as long...
...universal praise. Silicon Valley insiders, reports a wag, "can't decide whether it looks like a toilet seat or a Hello Kitty bag." But even its detractors would have to agree that it's a striking departure for the home-computer market--and quite possibly a landmark in the quest Jobs began when he founded Apple two decades ago. "I remember when he pulled the white sheet off the first Mac in '84," says Tim Bajarin, a longtime Apple watcher. "Even then, he was going to create the 'computer for Everyman...
Rotberg said he recently finished working with Neelan on the book Creating Peace in Sri Lanka, based on their 1997 conference. Neelan's contribution to the book was a chapter called "The Devolution and the Elusive Quest for Peace in Sri Lanka...
...worried about how to have a meaningful life in a fishbowl, but John would lead a life that required he bat away the paparazzi while Caroline would have a life in which she could walk her children to school and answer her own phone. She would even intellectualize the quest for privacy in a book on the First Amendment, In Our Defense. While John had an effervescent star quality, a glamour about him and his stylish wife, Caroline was incandescent, without a trace of glitz, but glowing from within. She was entirely free of the resentment that attaches...