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...worldwide phone-in television talk show and CNN’s highest-rated program, will be speaking to some of the best of America’s future lawyers today. In his speech to HLS’s graduating class, King says he will focus on taking risks, a theme that has defined his journey from a rough-and-tumble childhood in Brooklyn to broadcasting superstardom...
...mere mortal, albeit still a rich and well-connected one, Bronfman, 48, has to confront his past in the old-fashioned way. Shortly after Vivendi announced plans to shed $7 billion in debt this year by unloading entertainment assets, including its film studios, music group, TV networks and theme parks, Bronfman last week declared his desire to buy them back...
...more than $1 billion. So where will Edgar Jr. get the money for his bid? Analysts say Universal Music Group could sell for about $7 billion, and the rest of the entertainment units--Universal Pictures, TV networks including USA and Sci Fi, Vivendi Universal Games and the Universal Studios theme parks--for at least $13.5 billion. Bronfman's spokesman says financing is falling into place. The Edgar Bronfman Sr. side of the family will contribute some cash; Wachovia Securities and Merrill Lynch have agreed to help finance the debt; and Cablevision would add its cable assets to any deal...
...Clinton Wars takes us through Whitewater, Morris, Vince Foster, Paula Jones and Monicagate--episodes that few among us are longing to revisit, though they're marginally more interesting when seen from better seats. Blumenthal's abiding theme is that Clinton's presidency was the victim of a right-wing political cabal that manipulated the media and the legal system to make mountains out of dunghills, and he makes a surprisingly convincing case by doggedly following countless news stories and allegations to their origins in tainted, planted, unfounded, retracted, distorted, misleading and plain nonexistent evidence. Throughout, we get too brief flashbulb...
...book Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck, is full of themes—as many themes as there are rabbits in a thriving den, and as many sub-themes and tunnels between themes as in the den itself. Undergirding this abundance is the book’s central Theme, that of (the) rabbit(s). It can fairly be said, with remarkable brashness and deceptively little initial qualification, that John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men is all about rabbits. Rabbits are more than just characters in the novel: they in some sense are the novel...