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...Wolff. The hard-charging 77-year-old mogul must be aware that for many journalists, "hatred of Murdoch had come to define the profession." But he and his feuding family--including four adult children, a scorned former wife and his current spouse, 39-year-old ex--News Corp. executive Wendi Deng--nonetheless opened themselves up to biographer Wolff's relentless questioning. The result is an inside account of the billionaire newsman's hard-fought, obsessive battle to acquire the Wall Street Journal. But as in Murdoch's more lowbrow publications, the real attraction here is the scandal: Wolff delves into...
...elegant CEO/spouse, hosted 1,000 of their closest friends. Robin Li, the young CEO of Baidu, China's Google, was there. So, too, was Chao Yang, one of the smartest young bankers in Beijing, and his wife Li Yifei, who for years ran Viacom China for Sumner Redstone; Wendi Deng and her older husband - a guy named Murdoch... As at Jianfu, the list went on. Movie stars (Maggie Cheung); models, foreign media big shots - this was a celebration of the Next China, at an event, the Beijing Olympics, that will forever demarcate past from future in this country...
...revenue - a rate that Jon Sinton, AAR's president, expects to continue for the next two years. Commercials for national brands like Geico and Volkswagen can now be heard along with spots for Verbal Advantage vocabulary builders (one of Limbaugh's early sponsors), sexual potency pills and "clinical hypnotherapist" Wendi Friesen's promises of happiness, weight loss and freedom from nicotine addiction if you'll just let her talk in your sleep...
...February 1988, several students from Thernstrom’s fall semester core course Historical Studies A-25, “The Peopling of America,” accused the professor of displaying “racial insensitivity” in the class. One African-American student, Wendi Grantham ’89 (who in her subsequent career as an actress appeared on HBO’s “The Wire” and NBC’s “Homicide: Life on the Streets”), told Wiener that she objected to Thernstrom’s syllabus, which...
Adopting the wardrobe of a beatnik and the eating habits of a monk, RUPERT MURDOCH is easing into a new phase of life. In the upcoming issue of Vanity Fair, Murdoch, 68, reports that his updated look, featuring a preponderance of black, is due less to WENDI DENG, 32, his wife of three months, than to his sons. "I wanted to look like them," he says, "40 years younger." To that end, he has been visiting "some institute at UCLA--they've got me on a morning drink [of] fruit and soya powder" and exercising with a trainer who "tortures...