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...Mary Louise was 44. He had been a hustling Cuban kid sent to the U.S. by his well-to-do parents when he was 16 to avoid indoctrination by the then new Castro regime. He rose rapidly in the rental-car business but made his real mark as a shrewd operator in the record-and-video distribution business. He founded his own video- and music-software distribution company, Live Entertainment Inc., and joined the board of directors of Carolco Pictures Inc., producer of the Rambo films. The couple and their two athletically gifted sons, Joseph Lyle, 22, and Erik Galen...
Williams, 58, is a shrewd businessman who grew up on a cattle ranch at Fort Stockton and built a $250 million empire in oil, gas, ranching, banking and communications. He boasts that his business endeavors have created jobs for 100,000 Texans. "I'm a survivor of the oil patch," he tells crowds. "Rebuilding is my purpose. Let's make Texas great again." On the stump at tamale feeds and rodeos, the candidate embellishes his message, bear-hugging his way through crowds, pecking women on the cheek and grabbing a guitar to warble a Mexican ballad. "Look...
...notion of commercials in the classroom raised a furor when it was introduced last year. It also inspired a shrewd countermove by Atlanta cable kingpin Ted Turner. Starting last September, Turner's Cable News Network began offering a classroom newscast of its own, without commercials. (Time Warner Inc. owns 18% of CNN's parent, Turner Broadcasting Co., and 50% of Whittle Communications.) The 15-minute show, CNN Newsroom, is telecast each morning at 3:45; schools with cable can tape it and play it back later in the day. Turner's nonprofit venture does not offer free equipment, but many...
...Left Foot, nominated for Best Picture, credits Miramax's tasteful promotional campaign for much of the movie's success: "They didn't try to sensationalize it." Observes sex, lies director Steven Soderbergh: "Harvey and Bob don't try to second-guess the audience; they move quickly and make shrewd choices...
...Since the best rebounders and shooters from inner-city schools are in demand at institutions that offer athletic scholarships, which Princeton does not, and rarely meet Princeton's rigorous admissions requirements anyway, Carril must cast his lines elsewhere. This leads to a corollary Carrilism that says the shrewd coach must never recruit players from schools whose names include the words country, day or Friends. "Ecole," he says. "Don't forget ecole." Players who are products of the kind of affluence such names suggest are never tough enough when the game is on the line. "You can't win with three...