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Turow, who received his J.D. in 1978, wrote his first novel, One-L, during his years at the Law School. Berman's novel was just released nationwide by Warner Books and will be in bookstores...
...room in the entire complex has a refrigerator full of soda and big bowls of free snacks. "But no chips," he complained. Later that afternoon, as I stumbled in from my champagne reception, my other roommate, Greg, announced that he'd just been offered a job in the Time Warner New Media Department, also starting next fall. He explained how every room in the Time Warner Complex has a fridge with free spring water and bowls of complimentary snacks, including chips. I suddenly remembered something about my thesis: as much of a pain...
...there's another problem, a vaguely moralone. Take the two employers of my roommates: Sonyand Time Warner. These corporations are both huge,horribly evil empires that are largely responsiblefor most of the wrongdoing that goes on in theworld. Everybody knows who really killed KurtCobain; no one really thinks that the "terrorists"who bombed the World Trade Center were acytheories aside, there are plenty of things to holdagainst these corporations, like the CountingCrows. Frida had a job lined up in New York at ananimation company: a couple days ago, she got acall that the job wasn't available anymore. Why?Because...
Already Bronfman has earned the title of mischiefmaker. His sorties are tilting the fortunes of several prominent companies-not just Matsushita, MCA and his own but also Du Pont, Time Warner and infant multimedia outfit DreamWorks SKG. Last week, for $8.8 billion, the chemical giant bought back most of Seagram's 24.1% of Du Pont stock. Time Warner, of which Seagram owns a provocative 14.9%, braced for a messy stock scramble should Bronfman sell his shares. DreamWorks also looked to the shy, dapper mogul for indications that he would retain MCA's current, embattled management and thus be in line...
...considering "the possible downgrade" of Seagram's debt. Seagram stock dropped nearly 17% during the week, closing Friday at 26 1/2. Wall Street speculators signaled that they liked only one scenario: that an investor buying Bronfman's block of shares could set off a contest for Time Warner. Rumors that General Electric's Jack Welch could be the buyer helped send Time Warner's stock up more than 3% on Friday, closing...