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...towers and museums, a black steel-and-glass carton. For symphony halls and convention centers? Ditto. For houses? O.K., for houses, something more domestic--a steel-and-glass carton in white. All the same, the best of what he did is still utterly beautiful. Around the lobby of the Seagram Building in New York City, threads of steel outline wide fields of glass to make the tonnage of the upper stories float. His dual apartment towers on Lake Shore Drive in Chicago are as elegantly self-contained as Japanese bento boxes. And his nearly all-glass Farnsworth House in Plano...
...late August, Middelhoff decided to go after Napster himself. Ironically, he came to that conclusion after a meeting with Seagram chairman Edgar Bronfman Jr., a staunch Napster foe, in which they discussed ways to resolve the Napster question. "We walked out of Edgar's office, and Thomas and I looked at each other, and it just clicked," says Andreas Schmidt, president of the Bertelsmann E Commerce Group, who orchestrated the partnership. That day Schmidt got on the phone to Napster CEO Hank Barry and began eight weeks of intense transcontinental negotiations, from San Francisco to Miami, New York City...
...reasoning goes about like this: think of some of this year's biggest business stories--AOL's merging with Time Warner, Vivendi's acquiring Seagram, Napster's hijacking the music industry. They are all, in some sense, about devising more and creative ways to suck up bandwidth. Words, music, video, interactive TV--they're all data that have to go through the electronic plumbing of the network...
...engineering (the dazzling new Normandy Bridge and the Franco-British Channel Tunnel). With assets like these, the country is well placed to benefit from the cyclical upturn lifting all European economies. Meanwhile, aggressive French firms are making their mark abroad. Vivendi last month announced a merger with Canada's Seagram that will give the new company control of Universal's film and music interests and make it a major player in the entertainment field...
...million) could help, particularly if Julia Roberts wins an Oscar for Best Actress. But studio chief Ron Meyer will doubtless be sent packing by Vivendi, which reportedly plans to replace him with Pierre Lescure, chairman and CEO of Canal Plus. Messier must also decide what to do with Seagram's 45% stake in Barry Diller's USA Network, which has cable channels and film- and TV-production facilities. Diller has feuded with Bronfman since the Seagram heir scotched Diller...