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While private equity plodded along, Silverman built HFS into one of the stars of the 1990s stock-market boom. The company expanded into real estate, then rental cars (Avis). Its share price rose almost 2,000% in four years, and Silverman's net worth rocketed toward $1 billion. He was hailed as a genius. Then, in 1997, he merged HFS with direct-marketer CUC to form Cendant. CUC was an e-commerce pioneer, giving Silverman a tangential link to the Internet bubble. Under CEO Walter Forbes, now awaiting jail, CUC was also a pioneer at fabricating earnings, Silverman later discovered...
...present values, half a U.S. cent. Outside, two men in suits and sunglasses, possibly secret-service agents, watched as I left court. Though the local authorities had let me go, there was no guarantee I would avoid being interrogated again by Mugabe's secret police. I jumped in my rental car and, calculating that the authorities would expect me to head south to South Africa or west to Botswana, drove 373 miles north to Zambia. An hour after nightfall, the road became muddy. It seemed to be raining. A rumbling filled the air. I looked left, and there, silver...
...fathers of video art—and you find a measly 11,800 images, and only 50 video hits. Even with the emergence of potential resources such as YouTube, video art remains obscure for those not plugged in to the art world. E-Flux Video Rental, a video art exhibition in the Carpenter Center’s Sert Gallery set to conclude on April 13, has tried to rectify that situation, with some measure of success.“E-flux was an intervention that called attention to this medium that was supposed to be really cheap and easy...
...land where residents have no alternative housing. But owners won't back down. Local businessman and Rotarian Peter Drysdale leads a campaign to build 700 homes for squatters. He says landowners take advantage of the squatters' lack of rights, citing the case of a woman who organized an unofficial rental agreement with one family of indigenous Fijians. The woman had electricity connected to her shack, but then the chief plugged the freezer of his fish shop into her supply. "She was looking paler and paler when I saw her," he says. "I thought she was getting sick...
...show in the style of VH1’s “Best Week Ever.”The review, blogged on Jan. 12, said that the show “makes you wish they enforced age requirements for video cameras like they do for guns or rental cars.”“The hosts are enthusiastic and attractive,” the post argued. “Its attitude is harmless...but around a minute and a half, the thought will dawn on you: They’re not joking.”For HRTV, the controversy...