Brash, Hard-Driving Executive Steers CNBC to Top of Cable News
Date: 10 July 2000
By Jim Rutenberg
Jim Rutenberg
Profile of Bill Bolster, president of CNBC, who has made network the highest-rated news and information network on cable television, surpassing CNN, in just three years; he is widely described as a tyrannical bully who often offends colleagues, but he is admired as a TV genius gifted not only at packaging and promoting programming but also at selling it to advertisers at top dollar; graph; photos (M)
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The Way We Live Now: 07-09-00: Word & Image; The Nirvana News
Date: 09 July 2000
By Max Frankel
Max Frankel
Max Frankel, in his final Word & Image column, speculates on newspaper of future; says that paper product will be replicated and improved by digital technologies, but that advance will occur only if way is found to pay for product; says electronic commerce will inevitably siphon off much of advertising that has been supporting news gatherers without reinvesting revenue in sophisticated journalism; photo (M) y
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Paper Seen as Villain in Abuse Accusations Against Rabbi
Date: 10 July 2000
By Felicity Barringer
Felicity Barringer
Jewish Week, largest Jewish newspaper in America, is criticized by some of its readers for publishing an article by Gary Rosenblatt, its editor and publisher, extensively documenting accusations that Rabbi Baruch Lanner of Paramus, NJ, abused teenagers in his charge emotionally, sexually and physically and that Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations shielded him for decades; other Jewish newspapers are put in the same sort of bind when they the publish article that might cause dissension or embarrassment within the Jewish community; photos (M)
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Helen Thomas Is Back as a Columnist With Hearst
Date: 10 July 2000
By Greg Winter
Greg Winter
Helen Thomas joins Hearst Newspapers as columnist on national affairs four months after resigning from United Press International, where she covered the White House for four decades (S)
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An Increase in Tool Orders
Date: 10 July 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Orders for machine tools increase in May as demand picks up in almost all regions (S)
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European Aircraft Maker Prices Its Shares
Date: 10 July 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
European Aeronautic, Defense and Space Co prices its stock at 19 euros a share for institutional investors; this puts a value on the company in total of around 15 billion euros, or $14.2 billion, one-fifth lower than analysts expected (S)
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Dexter Agrees To Be Bought By Invitrogen
Date: 10 July 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Invitrogen Corp, which develops medical kits for genetic research, agrees to buy Dexter Corp, a chemical maker, and Life Technologies Inc, which makes biological material for genetic research, for $1.9 billion in cash and stock; Dexter has 75 percent stake in Life Technologies (S)
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Agency Cleared For Oversight Of Net Names
Date: 10 July 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
General Accounting Office concludes that Clinton administration acted within the law when it delegated control of the Internet address system to a private group, the nonprofit Internet Corp for Assigned Names and Numbers, or Icann; says Commerce Department also had legal authority to enter into agreements with Icann and allow it to collect fees to recover its costs; Afternic.com, which auctions previously registered domain names, drops what is believed to be the first lawsuit against Icann (S)
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On TV, No-Frills News
Date: 10 July 2000
John Kelly letter applauds no-frills, no-gimmick approach to television news adopted by WBBM in Chicago (July 3 article)
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200 Years Too Late?
Date: 09 July 2000
Dave Shaw letter responds to July 6 news article about Hartford Courant's apology for publishing advertisements for slaves in 18th and 19th centuries; questions how anything said today can absolve actions of someone 200 years ago (M)
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