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...said the incident also left him shaken...
Instead, he bought about 13% of QVC, the cable-TV retailer that is the Home Shopping Network's prime competitor. But he hadn't quite shaken his yen for upscale properties and in short order was using QVC to launch the exhaustively chronicled bidding war for Paramount that he lost to Viacom's Sumner Redstone. By the summer of 1994, Diller was describing a projected takeover of CBS as his "destiny." But Comcast, a cable company that owned a 15.5% stake in QVC, squelched the deal and then tendered its own offer to buy out Diller's share...
Such is the skittishness of investors in this period of strained relations between Taiwan and China. Confidence within Taiwan has been shaken, leading to unprecedented capital outflows. Since last summer, Taiwanese have siphoned an estimated $8 billion from the island. "Quite a few wealthy people have sold their homes and sent their money abroad, sometimes following as immigrants," says Thomas Chien, managing director of James Capel Taiwan, a securities company...
...professional journalist, I will pass on this question. But I will certainly defend this practice as intellectually responsible and even necessary in a university setting. In a community of ideas like Harvard, one that likes to fashion itself as vibrant and thriving, it is crucial that the place be shaken up on a regular basis. Unpopular opinions need to be expressed so that we do not grow complacent and intellectually lazy...
...smoothly into the role of Israel's Prime Minister, bringing a welcome sense of normality to a traumatized nation, he found a supremely embarrassing mess awaiting him: the stained reputation of the vaunted domestic security service, known as the Shin Bet, which answers directly to the Prime Minister. Already shaken by the security lapses that allowed the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, Shin Bet faces new allegations that one of the young religious zealots arrested for involvement in the murder was actually an informer on the service's own payroll. According to Israeli intelligence sources, the informer never told Shin...