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...profiles. Of course, most Cabinet members slip into obscurity by the time the new term gets underway, but Bush seems determined to avoid any controversies he can in the meantime. Next week: labor secretary, energy secretary, transportation secretary, UN representative, and most of the rest of the White House staff...
...been Ronald Reagan's Middle East envoy and Nixon's ambassador to NATO, and he studied deficit reduction under Bush's father. Heck, Cheney was Rumsfeld's deputy when Rumsfeld was Ford's chief of staff...
Boies met Mary McInnis, his third wife, when she was a lawyer on the White House staff in the late '70s and he was taking a sabbatical from Cravath to work with the Senate Antitrust Subcommittee--and, not incidentally, had been divorced from his second wife for five years and was ready for a little order in his life. "It took me about 12 minutes to fall in love with him," she says. "He was smart, good-looking, unmarried--what could be wrong...
...insurmountable goal: to shape Time Warner's disparate, shark-infested corporate divisions and AOL's single-minded Internet entrepreneurs into a lean, mean conquering force. Although Levin insisted that the new headquarters be in New York, the cost was the defenestration of much of Time Warner's corporate staff. Many of the top executive roles have gone to AOL. Middle managers from the two companies have clashed over, among other things, ad-sales strategies and Time Warner's compensation structure. "A lot of [AOL executives] came in thinking they were going to tell us how to run our businesses," says...
...mergers often fail (see DaimlerChrysler and AT&T/TCI). In a staff memo just days after the merger was announced, Case and Levin asserted that the new company would "fundamentally change the way people communicate." That's a tall order. And no matter how hot the paradigm or how far and fast the technology reaches, AOL Time Warner is still in the business of satisfying finicky consumers, who want content from everybody, for nothing if possible. It will take more than synergy for this new Internet-age media colossus to succeed. And as Case and Levin would be the first...