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...friends--even if you disagree with them on every subject other than Israel. "Evangelicals have a unique role to play with this Administration and in the Republican Party that Jews can't," says Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein, who runs an interfaith alliance. "Jews today see Israel's survival at stake, so they are more willing to put aside domestic concerns." In this view, Evangelical support reflects many factors: shared security interests, a desire to atone for past persecution of Jews, and deep, shared roots in the Book of Genesis. "Our primary motivation comes from the biblical verses that...
Skeptics said he was naive to think that Americans would shell out $10 to $20 a month for extra channels when they were happy with the ones they pulled in with rabbit ears. And when Malone ended up controlling more than 10 million cable subscribers and a stake in nearly every major cable network, from CNN and Discovery to QVC, he was called a ruthless gatekeeper to America's eyeballs. The resentment was not just over what Malone did, but how he did it: by being one of the corporate world's most feared negotiators. Square-shouldered at 61, Malone...
...lawful." Her company also announced a 26% jump in ad pages for the July issue of Martha Stewart Living. Say this for the woman who turns old drawer pulls into fancy wine corks: She knows her audience. Shares of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, in which she has a 63% stake worth nearly $500 million, recovered to $15.97 Friday after a two-week slide that had taken it down to $14.40 amid fears that her brand would be sullied by connection to insider-trading allegations at ImClone...
...audit, nominating and compensation committees. But the proposals don't go far enough. Board members should buy a large chunk of a company's stock as the price of entry, and be paid only in shares or options with long vesting periods. Nothing promotes rigorous oversight like an economic stake. There needs to be a clear definition of "independent" director to exclude those who even indirectly receive any benefit from the company beyond their director...
...Critics wonder, then, why such a formidable businessman needs to be awarded advantages such as sole-source government contracts. Of course, cultivating political connections for business purposes is standard procedure in many countries. But in Malaysia, the stakes are especially high: you can be catapulted from the ranks of the merely wealthy into the rarefied status of billionairedom in part by earning the confidence of the right people. The companies Mokhtar controls have a stake in almost every sector of the economy: from the publicly listed Malakoff, now Malaysia's biggest private sector producer of electrical power, to Pernas, which...