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Until then Snyder, 61, had been one of the most powerful executives in publishing. Aggressive and abrasive, he had run Simon & Schuster since 1975 and increased the firm's revenues from $40 million to $2 billion. He achieved this growth largely by buying educational publishers like Prentice Hall. But those outfits didn't bring Simon & Schuster fame. It was its trade division -- the division that publishes the nonfiction books and novels available in bookstores -- that made waves...
Last week Richard Snyder, the CEO of the huge publishing house Simon & Schuster, and his young, third wife Laura Yorke invited a dozen Manhattan media swells to a dinner party. The guest of honor was to be Snyder's new boss, Sumner Redstone. Redstone's company, Viacom, acquired Simon & Schuster when it bought Paramount Communications, which owned the publisher. But the day before the party, Redstone left a message on Snyder's answering machine, backing...
Seniors: David Anderson, Todd Dawson, Steve Kelts, Pete McConnon, Mark Nowakowski, Esan Simon, Matthew Wachowicz
...medics assumed the cause to be pneumonia. After they found out it was AIDS, some of them made tasteless jokes about the man's sexuality and others suggested they bury his respirator. It was not that they were ill-intentioned, as Abraham Verghese points out in My Own Country (Simon & Schuster; 347 pages; $23); it was simply that AIDS, to say nothing of homosexuality, was something that happened somewhere else. For a quiet Bible Belt town of dance halls and churches (72 of them), the disease was an unwanted foreigner...
...equipment to carry out such a perilous mission successfully. Ghana, Ethiopia, Senegal and Zimbabwe have promised troops, and the U.N. hopes Egypt and Nigeria will also contribute. That only intensifies suspicion that the white West's refusal to come to the aid of black Africa is racist. Wrote columnist Simon Hoggart in the British daily Guardian: "Nobody you know has ever been on holiday to Rwanda. And Rwandans don't look like us. They have even less clout than Bosnian Muslims...