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...three- plus years of running NBC's entertainment programming failed to develop any real comedy or drama breakout hits. Since May he has overseen all NBC Universal's vast TV properties, including news channels CNBC and MSNBC; thriving cable networks like Bravo, USA and Sci-Fi; upstart Spanish-language network Telemundo; and the Universal TV studios. Along with his business-side colleague Randy Falco, Zucker is considered a favorite to succeed NBC Universal CEO Bob Wright...
...band members say that they have found increasing support from other student bands and are looking to make the scene more welcome to other would-be upstart groups. Johung says Plan B would like to foster a “better network of equipment sharing” to counter what was their greatest problem when they began, hopefully spurring more groups to form...
Bangsar, at one time Kuala Lumpur's beer-and java-fueled social epicenter, is not quite the buzzing burb it used to be. Blame that on two upstart areas-Changkat Bukit Bintang and Jalan Doraisamy (a.k.a. Asian Heritage Row)-that have taken the Malaysian capital by storm with a combination of restored colonial architecture and hip nightlife. There's plenty of decadent local color to boot-Changkat Bukit Bintang doubles up as love-hotel central...
...contrast, a relative upstart with $5.4 billion in annual revenue, increasingly is focused on online commerce--and its travel portion generates 31% of revenue and 61% of operating profit. IAC also owns LendingTree, dating service Match.com local online resource CitySearch and the largely offline cash generators Ticketmaster and Home Shopping Network (HSN). Diller's strategy: use the cash from Ticketmaster and HSN to promote his online ambitions, and be there as consumers migrate from all manner of traditional services to the Web. "We fundamentally believe that more and more things are going online," Diller says. "We are experts in bringing...
...where my wife and daughter would want to live." But Sistani's aides say he considers the Khomeini and Taliban experiments in theocracy failures--too extreme and rigid for modern society, especially one as demographically diverse as Iraq. And he opposes al-Sadr in large measure because the upstart is pushing to make Iraq a carbon copy of Iran, with al-Sadr at the helm...