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...Queen of Nice from Newsweek. This was New York State Supreme Court, and last week O'Donnell was testifying as the defendant in a $100 million suit brought by Gruner+Jahr USA, publisher of the short-lived monthly Rosie. The charge, as articulated by G+J CEO Daniel Brewster Jr.: she "walked away from her obligations" after a battle over editorial control of the magazine. O'Donnell has countersued for $125 million, charging that, by cutting her out of key decisions, G+J violated the contract...
...Donnell is the underdog in this battle, since she has admitted she never read the contract she is contesting (which gave Brewster veto power over her decisions). But beyond the legal dispute is a conundrum about the nature of fame. What is that fragile commodity called celebrity? Who is "Rosie...
...stand, O'Donnell said Brewster had asked her, "Are you going to be a controlling bitch like Martha and Oprah?" and she replied, "Martha and Oprah are pretty successful controlling bitches, don't you think?" But Oprah gave women a vision of how to be better; Stewart gave them advice on how to get it done prettier and more tastily. The new Rosie--out, stout and lout--was chancier as an icon for mainstream moms...
...free wi-fi in San Francisco, the city has Brewster Kahle to thank for sowing the seeds of SFLAN back in 1997. An entrepreneur who sold his search-engine business to Amazon.com Kahle now runs the Internet Archive, a nonprofit that collects and stores a vast library of defunct Web pages. He buys his Internet access wholesale from a local company at the bargain rate of $30 per megabit per month. The archive needs many thousands of megabits to do its job, and Kahle considers the amount of bandwidth that Pozar's San Bruno antenna requires--which costs Kahle less...
...Harvard men’s golf team posted impressive scores across the board at the 69th Annual NEIGA Championship in Brewster, Mass. over the past two days, placing all five of its members in the top 52 and firing a 306-318—624 to finish third in the field of 45 New England teams...