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...Daddy's favorite, runs News Corp.'s U.S. publishing and TV business from New York City, where he has had some success turning around the perpetually troubled tabloid the New York Post. The subject of succession is clearly a sensitive one in the family. When questioned recently by a journalist, James, looking agitated, snapped, "It would be very nice to put that speculation to bed." Maybe Fox could create a new TV show to settle it: Who Wants to Be a Media Mogul? --By Michael Schuman. With reporting by Mark Halper/London
...after Khodorkovsky's arrest. Another, Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov, is so disaffected that his departure is only a matter of time. Speculation is rife that he may even run against Putin in next March's presidential race. But the immediate battlefield is the Duma. As one faithful Kremlin mouthpiece, journalist Mikhail Leontyev, remarked on state-controlled TV: "Who would have thought that real politics would suddenly emerge in this country?" The Duma has not been known as a body in which real politics take place. Up to now it's been a docile extension of presidential power. A hostile Duma...
...Bush's arrival was a stunning surprise to all but a small handful of top officials gathered in the huge hangar last night. The first whiff of something afoot rippled through the six invited journalists, as they watched a few colleagues - fresh from Waco - walk into the hangar through a back door. "It's Cheney," whispered one journalist, who recognized a White House photographer among them. "Not possible," was the quick answer from another...
Three-time Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Thomas L. Friedman speaks for most of the North American elite when he condemns “these anti-WTO protesters—who are a Noah’s ark of flat-earth advocates, protectionist trade unions and yuppies looking for their 1960s fix.” Yet, even within the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, there are some new voices admitting that the Friedman world view and policy prescriptions have led to misery for much of the world. In many Ivy League economic circles and among the Business Roundtable...
...terrorist attack on the al-Muhaya housing enclave in Riyadh on Nov. 8 that killed 18 Muslims has shocked and sickened many Saudi citizens. "Any sympathy [for Osama bin Laden] has more or less evaporated," contends Saudi journalist Tariq Alhomayed. But the rotten public-relations fallout is not likely to alter al-Qaeda's plans. Saudi officials are preparing for the worst as 2 million of the faithful converge next week on the holy city of Mecca to celebrate the Eid ul-Fitr feast. Saudi officials say they dispatched 4,700 extra security forces there last week after foiling...