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Unlike his prior, mostly passive investments in Citi, Apple Computer and Disneyland Paris, this time Alwaleed is buying with an intent to take a more active hand with management. Murdoch might find that interesting. He also might find himself with a like-minded partner. Alwaleed is a global thinker, and in the media business, nobody is more global than Murdoch. The prince apparently hopes that entrenching himself in high-tech media-related outfits may help make him a king of communications in the Middle East--or, in due course, an emperor like Murdoch. Says Alwaleed: "I want to concentrate...
...spending that much. Is the strategy to crank up some dazzling results and then snag a buyer? Is Calley just a caretaker? This is his second turn at the helm of a Hollywood studio; he headed Warner Brothers from 1967 to 1980. An engagingly candid, out-of-the-box thinker, Calley, 67, is nevertheless running a business that has changed drastically. Some in the industry wonder whether he has the will or the wile to stay in for the long haul...
Bill Clinton sometimes has trouble getting respect too. He wants history to remember him as a great strategic thinker, so he needs to set U.S.-China relations, the most perilous on the globe, on the right track for the next century. Up to now he hasn't defined the terms of that connection very well, Republicans and many Democrats have formed a China-bashing alliance, and groups with a host of complaints about issues from human rights to trade browbeat the Administration to treat China as a pariah. Like Jiang, Clinton has to persuade his countrymen that the People...
Allison said administrators selected Gore to speak because he is an "active thinker" on academic questions, as well as a Harvard graduate...
West said that after a lifetime of building an intellectual foundation, he is just beginning to come of age as a thinker...