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Gianni Versace did not make his legend by aping the behavior of others. Yet there was one custom of his peers he might have done better to observe. "Such a high-profile guy," says Bo Dietl, head of a large New York detective agency. "He had to be crazy not...
Robertson might actually turn out to be a more compatible partner for Murdoch. The two share similar conservative political views. And even though Robertson may be no fan of Fox programming, Murdoch would be unlikely, if he gains control of the Family Channel, to turn it into a clone of...
The industry has the wherewithal to raise $300 billion, the highest figure yet floated, payable over 25 years, to compensate plaintiffs for smoking-related ailments. Together, market leader Philip Morris and No. 2 Reynolds command a 72% share of the $45 billion U.S. tobacco industry. Cynics noted that demand for...
Second, it's paternalistic: it assumes that the workers can't adequately look out for their own best interests in choosing their representatives and agreeing to contracts--or don't have the wherewithal to appeal to the government for help if the need arises.
Certainly women's hard-won independence--their entry into the world of work and sexual freedom--was expected to break down some of these gender patterns. In the old days, says Nancy Friday, author of The Power of Beauty, "men had all the economic wherewithal, and women owned beauty, and...