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...They're setting us on a different level than everyone else," says Beverly M. Wright, the tribal council chair. "Donald Trump has his casinos. Do people say it's going to corrupt his culture because he's making money on this...
Power engenders fear. The Representative from Cobb County is more than a legislative bomb thrower. In the past 16 years, his guerrilla techniques have toppled one House Speaker -- Jim Wright of Texas -- and prompted the resignation of a senior Democrat -- Tony Coelho, now a part-time adviser to the Clinton White House. This year Gingrich ambushed the crime bill and forced an embarrassed Clinton Administration into overdrive to save it. Says Mickey Edwards, a former eight-term Oklahoma Republican and now a full-time lecturer at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government: "He's made the Democratic leadership deal with...
Like Kidder, NBC has from the start been a bruising journey into uncharted territory for GE. Close observers trace the declines in ratings and morale at the network to Welch's decision to install Robert Wright, who had been president of GE Financial, to run NBC. Wright promptly slashed budgets, laid off workers and, critics say, treated the business of providing news and entertainment as if it were indistinguishable from making loans or refrigerators...
...Welch has a weakness, it may be that he is not a good judge of people," says Warren Bennis, a management professor at the University of Southern California business school. "Robert Wright was the wrong guy to put in charge of NBC. He didn't know anything about television, or the creative side. NBC has suffered under GE's management...
...itself," a high-level insider says. "NBC may be well placed: it's profitable and having the second best year in its history. But its performance on the screen doesn't measure up. The problem is with the people Welch put in and left in place. It was Robert Wright who picked Leno over Letterman, and you see how that turned out. The loss of Letterman was the dumbest thing to happen in TV history...