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...propaganda. It's future creation." As he sees the process, two of the futurists' most potent tools are terror and exclusivity. "They put their clients in a state of fear and then explain that they hold the secret knowledge that can save them," says Rushkoff, whose own shrewd brand of high-tech utopianism earns the 34-year-old New Yorker six-figure book advances and up to $7,500 an hour strategizing for the likes of the Sony Corp., Telecommunications Inc. and Interval Research...
This part of the novel is a series of duels, the most conventional of which is between attorney White and a brassy, shrewd woman prosecutor who's sure she has the con man nailed for murder. White handles this courthouse skirmishing well enough but flounders when she tries to get a sense from her slippery client of what really happened. Although she is middle-aged, and maybe a bit lonely as well, White is too self-possessed to fall for this road-company Andy Griffith. Still, she does begin to think he may be innocent of murder. That impression grows...
...adding to its cruise business. But it needed something bigger than boats to make best use of the company's money. Says he: "Honestly, it doesn't make sense to spend $1 billion to build two cruise ships that can be capitalized [paid for] in 120 days." Making shrewd use of capital is Bollenbach's forte. In 1993 he fashioned an elegant solution to quite a different problem: saving Marriott Corp. from collapsing in debt by splitting it into two companies. In 1989, as CFO of Holiday Corp., he helped launch a subsidiary that is now the Promus Hotel Corp...
Elizabeth Dole is joined in her push by House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Republican National Committee chairman Haley Barbour, who would like the candidate to name someone shrewd, trusted and sporting enough to try to coordinate Dole's decisions as majority leader with the demands of a tough campaign against Bill Clinton. Party leaders suggest that only a few Republicans have the stature to go toe to toe with Dole: former South Carolina Governor Carroll Campbell, former Minnesota Congressman Vin Weber and former Reagan chief of staff Kenneth Duberstein. But there are two problems: Dole has always jealously guarded that...
Much of the exodus can be directly linked to the departures last year of the agency's shrewd, ruthless chairman, Michael Ovitz, and its charismatic president, Ron Meyer. Both men left for studio jobs--Ovitz to Disney, Meyer to MCA. They took with them the agency's aura of invincibility and its ability to inspire fear in the Hollywood shark pool. Rivals, long resentful of the agency's No. 1 status, are smelling blood in the water...