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...Some banks made money, some lost. Pepsi scored, Coke disappointed. Some techs went up, some (OK, most) went down. The PC market is so bad that Dell is getting into routers. And in an example that, yes, this column was watching with particular interest, AOL Time Warner beat earnings expectations but was deemed to have done it all through cost-cutting and accounting magic, and so was beaten by traders like a mule that was not only rented but over-dependent on the moribund ad market...
TIME Magazine and Time Inc. have long stood for journalistic excellence. That excellence was recognized again last week when Time Inc. editorial director Walter Isaacson, who served as TIME's managing editor from 1996 through 2000, was named chairman and chief executive of AOL Time Warner's CNN News Group...
...Time Warner CEO Gerald M. Levin said in announcing the move, "In his 23 years with Time Inc., Walter has distinguished himself as one of America's--and the world's--most perceptive, dedicated and respected journalists. His many achievements as a writer, correspondent and editor at TIME magazine culminated in his selection as managing editor, putting him in a line of succession that reaches back to Henry Luce and the foundations of our company...
...congratulate John on his appointment to the expanded position of editorial director, Time Inc., and wish Walter all the best at CNN. They are two extraordinary professionals who continue to bring great luster to AOL Time Warner's journalistic reputation...
...first, Warner was searching for a connection between the present and China's brief but glorious seafaring past. In Nanjing he found it: a direct, 19th-generation descendant of the Grand Eunuch's favorite adopted nephew, named Zheng Zhihai (which means from the sea). This modest 53-year-old, dressed in a rumpled suit, hasn't exactly followed in his ancestor's glorious naval tradition; Zheng works as a toilet engineer in a Nanjing factory. Still, while China had largely forgotten his heroic ancestor, Zheng says family legends kept his exploits very much alive. Tales of his voyages were passed...