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Then there is the number that really catches Redstone's eye: Viacom stock has more than doubled in 12 months, to about $66. The run has been fueled by other developments in Viacom's vast empire, including the sell-off of most of book publisher Simon & Schuster for $4.6 billion, and a hot streak of hit movies, including Titanic. But it would not have been possible without the turn at Blockbuster, which contributes a third of Viacom's annual revenue...
...each other and honest. I found it to be a lovely change from the Capitol." That's not necessarily a reflection on all of official Washington. Blackman just finished writing Seasons of Her Life, a biography of Secretary of State Madeline Albright, which will be released this fall by Simon & Schuster/Scribner. Blackman has known Albright since 1984, when the future Secretary worked on Geraldine Ferraro's vice-presidential campaign, and promises some revelations in the book...
...Chinese. After years of expressing regret quietly in Japan, Chu-Ki-Nren members are seeking to apologize to American audiences, but Washington's ban on visas for war criminals is preventing them. Convinced, however, that the group's regrets should be heard, Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean at the Simon Wiesenthal Center's Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles, has organized a trans-Pacific video conference, to take place on the Internet Aug. 16 and be covered by Japan's top TV network, NHK. Panelists in Los Angeles will question four Chu-Ki-Nren members in Tokyo, among them...
...mother." Auschwitz resulted, you see, from the child Adolf's low self-esteem. A 1981 book published in Germany suggested in all seriousness that when Hitler was a youth, a billy goat took a bite out of his penis. Hence his subsequent career. The famous Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal put it all down to the syphilis he thought Hitler had contracted from a Jewish prostitute. Others said Hitler himself had Jewish blood...
...never hear a line of either Henry's or Simon's work. One or both may have great lyrical beauty and ethical depth; one or both may be junk. It matters not, for this is less a tale of literary gamesmanship than a parable of friendship. What would you do for a friend, a lover, the family you feel trapped by? Who deserves your most annihilating sacrifice? What are friends for, anyway...