Ted Turner

Does Doing Good Wear A White Face?

Julia Moulden | Posted 11.17.2011

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Julia Moulden

Last week's column posed the question, "Is making a difference only for the rich?" A friend sent me a link to an article from the Guardian newspaper a...

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Billionaires Hold Secret Meeting

ABC News | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Oprah Winfrey, Philanthropists, George Soros, Michael Bloomberg, Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, Billionaire Secret Meeting, Ted Turner, David Rockefeller, Business News

Under a cloak of secrecy, some of the world's wealthiest people gathered in an unprecedented meeting early this month in New York City possibly to coo...

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Group Of World's Richest People Hold Secret Meeting In New York

ABC News | RUSSELL GOLDMAN and EILEEN MURPHY | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: George Soros, America's Richest Secret Meeting, Warren Buffett, Oprah, World's Richest Secret Meeting, Michael Bloomberg, Ted Turner, Business News

Under a cloak of secrecy, some of the world's wealthiest people gathered in an unprecedented meeting early this month in New York City possibly to coo...

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"Stop Doing Dumb Things!" Ted Turner on GM, CNN, at Columbia Climate Center Launch

Alex Pasternack | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Environment, Jeffrey Sachs, Climate Change, Columbia University, Ted Turner, Green News
Alex Pasternack

"We need stop doing dumb things and start doing smart things. To use a baseball analogy, humanity is in the seventh inning and down by two runs."

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Follow the Fear

Mike Bonifer | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Mike Myers, Optimism, Potential, Improvisation, Gamechangers, Usc, Business, Productivity, Networked World, Bill Murray, Ted Turner, Del Close, Gilda Radner, John Belushi, Fear, Tina Fey, Economy, Recovery, Environment, Healthy Living News
Mike Bonifer

Do what makes you uneasy. Do the thing that scares you most. There, you will discover new worlds. Follow the fear. Out of it, you will grow.

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TBS Ordered To Pay $281M Over Atlanta Sports Sale: "This Jury Proved It Was Not The World According To Turner"

Bloomberg | Jeff Feeley and David Beasley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: David McDavid, Time Warner, Tbs, Atlanta Thrashers, Atlantha Hawks, Ted Turner, Media News

Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- A Time Warner Inc. unit must pay $281 million in damages to a Texas businessman for reneging on an oral agreement to sell him t...

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Spelling Ted Without Ed

Kevin Morris and Glenn Altschuler | Posted 05.25.2011

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Kevin Morris and Glenn Altschuler

For such a surprising life, Ted's memoir is exceptionally unsurprising. In Call Me Ted, he is serially and simultaneously a rebel and an establishment figure.

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Son of a Gambler's Guide to Holiday Books

Don McNay | Posted 05.25.2011

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Don McNay

It's a lesson to me, the ablers and the beggars and the thieves -The Grateful Dead If you read my book, Son of a Son of a Gambler, you'll know that...

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Ted Turner Goes To Town On Time Warner

Portfolio | Jeff Bercovici | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Call Me Ted, Time Warner, Ted Turner, Media News

Interviewed this morning at the Time/Life Building by Time magazine's Josh Tyrangiel, the swashbuckling CNN founder took every opportunity to bash his...

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Ted Turner Talks Marriage To Jane Fonda, Denies Her Faith Caused Split

AP | HILLEL ITALIE | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK — It wasn't religion that broke up his marriage to Jane Fonda, Ted Turner declares in a new memoir. He says he was "upset" when he dis...

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Practicing Paper Tigerism: Threatening to Boycott Russia's 2014 Sochi Olympics

Monroe Price | Posted 05.25.2011

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Monroe Price

The lights are about to go out on Beijing 2008, and -- guess what -- there's already talk of a Georgia-related U.S.-organized boycott of the 2014 Winter Olympic Games.

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Ted Turner Joins Christian Groups To Fight Malaria

Reuters | Posted 05.25.2011

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Media mogul Ted Turner, who once called Christianity a "religion for losers," announced on Tuesday he was joining forces with two Christian organizati...

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Turner "Almost Done" Buying Up Ranchland

Omaha World Herald | PAUL HAMMEL | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ted's Nebraska Grill, Billionaires, Cnn, Turner Ranchland, Mouth of the South, Philanthropists, Nebraska, Ted Turner, Business News

The "Mouth of the South" might be mellowing, at least in terms of his appetite for ranchland in Nebraska. CNN founder Ted Turner, the largest private...

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Interview Showdown: Ted Turner 1, Publicist 0

Huffington Post | Michelle Kung | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: GQ 50th Anniversary, Gq, Wil Hylton, Ted Turner, Media News

Nobody tells Ted Turner to shush, and that goes double for his publicist. While being interviewed by Wil Hylton for GQ's 50th anniversary issue, the m...

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Interview Showdown: Ted Turner 1, Publicist 0

Huffington Post | Michelle Kung | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ted Turner, Gq, Eat the Press, Media News

Nobody tells Ted Turner to shush, and that goes double for his publicist. While being interviewed by Wil Hylton for GQ's 50th anniversary issue, the ...

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