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...influence on the politics or ideology of his 31 newspapers and seven magazines. Second, he expected the papers' coverage and management outlook to remain resolutely local, so he never superimposed a high-powered team of overseers. Instead, he relied on his own bulging briefcase and the loyalty of his clan: several dozen relatives held jobs on the payroll. Third, Newhouse ardently avoided publicity and, above all, controversy. He kept so low a profile that he could walk unrecognized through his own newsrooms. Maybe the only thing he touted was his height: although biographer Richard Meeker says...
...decade since S.I.'s death, the empire has grown to a value of around $11 billion -- a family fortune that may be second only to the Mars candy clan in the U.S. At the newspapers and cable-TV holdings run by Newhouse's son and co-heir Donald, the same unobtrusive style still prevails. And while Hearsts, Knights, Ridders, Chandlers and other media dynasts have mostly dropped out of day-to-day management of their inheritances, about two dozen Newhouses work at properties ranging from the Newark Star-Ledger (circ. 470,000) and the Cleveland Plain Dealer (circ...
...elements in the Republican Club amounts to an unfortunate oversimplification. This view is evinced in the May 21 editorial "Tilting at Windmills." As the dissent ("The Right Isn't Monolithic, Either') aptly points out, however, many conservatives, like myself, find the activities of Peninsula, Summer E. Anderson '92 and clan appalling and an extreme disservice to conservatism and Republicanism. Their apparent disavowal of rights dear to liberal-democratic society is highly distressing. I guess, then, what does make me moderate relative (oops) to these extremists is that I am a liberal in the traditional sense, an advocate of the liberalism...
First among them is Moses Berger, a former academic who seems to regard the slogan DRINK CANADA DRY as a moral imperative. As a child in Montreal, he is introduced to a local clan of mysterious origin and unlimited wealth. Forty years later, Berger finally discards alcohol for a fresh obsession: writing the saga of the strange and indomitable Gurskys...
...member state legislature, most voters seemed to regard him as an alien. "They look at us as if we're recent immigrants," he says. No one seemed to notice that the local roots of his white opponent do not go back as far as those of the Hatamiya clan...