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Deal Professor The Struggles of Todays Sumner Redstone By STEVEN DAVIDOFF SOLOMON

Twenty years ago, the aging media mogul would have dealt with the situation at Viacom with a decisive, Godfather-like approach.

Her statement about her fathers $40 billion media empire could be a prelude to the dismissal of the companys board and, ultimately, of Philippe P. Dauman.

The Amazon chief, buoyed by record profit, said he bought the newspaper to make it a more powerful publication on a national, and even global, stage.

Buskers at the memorial to John Lennon in Central Park seem to have found a precarious harmony after years of fighting over who got to perform and when.

After leaving the recipe-testing empire last fall, he is starting a new venture focused on cooking methods from around the world.

Mr. Trump angrily listed veterans groups that he said had received $5.6 million in gifts and demanded that journalists credit his act of charity.

The move is the latest twist in the case involving the filmmaker, who is wanted in California over a 1977 conviction for having sex with a 13-year-old girl.

This 83-year-old woman in a leotard came on and stood on her head and sang the national anthem and I said, You know what, Im home.

A federal rule on overtime pay endangers a practice in fields like publishing and movies, where low wages are accepted for a kind of apprenticeship.

News organizations wonder how to avoid a lopsided view of the election race as Donald J. Trump seems to relish airtime, while Hillary Clinton does not.

Many who have sued Gawker said it overstepped the boundaries of privacy, slandered reputations or failed to do adequate reporting before posting articles.

Verizon retreated on some major points and gained tools for paring down its work force in the tentative pact reached with unions representing nearly 40,000 striking workers.

He brought The Defenders, The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, The Mary Tyler Moore Show and The Beverly Hillbillies to the screen, along with recitals by Vladimir Horowitz.

In banding together, the companys board of directors has sided with chief executive Philippe P. Dauman, who was dismissed from Sumner M. Redstones trust and the board of National Amusements.

Today, few companies can boast that theyve remained loyal to a tagline born in the 1960s, but Nationwide is on your side continues to stand out in a chaotic marketing landscape.

Mr. Modells contributions to the magazine for more than 50 years evoked for readers their everyday vexations.

The East Hampton Star is a 131-year testament to the central role that local, family-owned newspapers can still play.

Until Hulk Hogans successful suit against Gawker Media, Charles J. Harder was mainly known for defending the privacy rights of Hollywood celebrities.

When a television show calls for a car, or anything else, to blow up, Mike Myers finds the best and least dangerous way to make it happen.

Todays quiet maneuvering by the ultrawealthy is very different from and can be more dangerous than the undisguised views of moguls like William Randolph Hearst.

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