Word: successor
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...party. "I had always thought of CBS as a network," says Redstone. "But it's much more than that." Redstone saw a good fit. CBS was strong domestically; Viacom was growing fast internationally. And shareholders had long expressed concerns that Redstone, who remains in fine fettle, had no clear successor. Karmazin, a darling on Wall Street for driving up the stock price of CBS, and of Infinity Broadcasting before that, would neatly resolve that issue...
Segall's departure should not affect ADAPT's course too greatly, as his successor, Sara E. Oseasohn '74, already has been working with the program for three years...
...years ago--and despite its already jammed sidewalks, the city has welcomed the cameras (the networks provide security to help control crowds). Friedman, who conceived Today's studio when he was its executive producer, even gives the show partial credit for the city's image turnaround, and his successor, Jeff Zucker, calls it "probably the best daily advertisement for the city." But now that imitators are jumping in, NBC of course downplays the importance of the set. "Everyone can build a studio. Not everyone can have Katie [Couric] and Matt [Lauer]," Zucker sniffs. "The studio isn't what brings people...
Last week Bartholomew apparently re-thought. Spyridon's successor is Demetrios Trakatellis, 71, a Greek senior bishop with a Harvard degree. The reversal's immediate cause may have been fiscal: American congregations had begun withholding contributions to the church. But a larger issue looms. Spyridon's predecessor considered founding, with other Eastern believers, an American Orthodox Church--a step away from Constantinople's authority that some still find attractive. "The mother raises the daughter, but eventually the daughter leaves home," says Popps. Bartholomew may have hoped his prickly prelate would forestall such talk. But in the end Spyridon may only...
...abandonment last month of the "one China" principle, China has been flooding pro-Beijing papers in Hong Kong with scare stories, as well as filling the skies over the Taiwan Strait with warplanes, in part to send a message to Taiwan's voters who will choose Lee's successor next year. The experts don't discount the risk that this psychological warfare could by accident erupt into the real thing, but figure Beijing has too much at stake right now, including an upcoming Clinton-Jiang meeting and a long-sought deal to get into the World Trade Organization. Moreover...