Word: warner
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...slumber comes two years after Ted Turner hectored his fellow billionaires to stop hoarding their market-inflated wealth. Last fall Turner (who is vice chairman of Time Warner, TIME's parent company) pledged $1 billion of his now $6 billion fortune to the United Nations in the form of an annual pledge of $100 million in Time Warner stock. He may have started something. The world's richest man, Bill Gates, long derided for being too penurious, has put $2 billion into his two charitable foundations. Earlier this month he donated $100 million in cash toward vaccinating children...
...SEAL Human Being (Warner Bros.) The man sometimes called the British Marvin Gaye lends intelligence and panache to the often juvenile world of pop R. and B. Seal's majestic, soulful voice has never been more expressive, and his songwriting, always pensive, now reaches deeper into the mysteries of love. Who will save soul? Seal will...
APOLOGIZED. DON HEWITT, 76, executive producer of 60 Minutes; for a June 1997 segment, made by Carlton Communications for the British network ITV (and also aired by Time Warner's Cinemax), which falsely claimed the Cali cartel had started a new heroin-smuggling route to London...
...thought, working for Time Warner, I'd get free cable service...
...opponents. Over the years, they have suffered from a reputation as one of the league's most dysfunctional families. Several Vikings have piled up charges ranging from rape to assault to drunk driving to embezzlement. A provocative new book, Pros and Cons: The Criminals Who Play in the N.F.L. (Warner Books; $24), depicts the Vikings as emblematic of a troubling trend in the league. Authors Jeff Benedict and Don Yaeger estimate that 1 in 5 players has been charged with a serious crime. "NFL teams are recruiting a new breed of criminal players the likes of which should disturb...