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Stewart: Developers have been key to the growth and dissemination of recent technology, yet for 150 years phone companies kept the barbarians at the gate . Now that said barbarians have leapfrogged the Telcos and their gatekeeper status, what happens to the Telcos? Is it all doom and gloom (www.oreillynet.com....tml?page=2)
ButTorvalds said he sees no such freedom in the license choice, tellingeWEEK recently that Sun "wants tokeep a moat against the barbarians at the gate . (blogs.sun.com....gs/attacks)
Sun"wants to keep a moat against the barbarians at the gate ," he wrote inan e-mail interview . Torvalds said he does not expect developersclamoring to start playing with that source code (blogs.sun.com....gs/attacks)
ButTorvalds said he sees no such freedom in the license choice, tellingeWEEK recently that Sun "wants tokeep a moat against the barbarians at the gate ." (blogs.sun.com....tags/media)
The RJR Nabisco buyout was the apex of the LBO excess of the 1980s. The battle for the company starring then-CEO F. Ross Johnson and KKR made for high drama in high finance - and the book Barbarians at the Gate , one of the bestselling business books of the er (www.bloggingbuy....egory/kkr/)
Barbarians the Gate is ostensibly a comedy, but it falls flat in that regard - the wit is generally limited to fairly hackneyed one-liners delivered by Johnson, and it gets stale very quickly (www.bloggingbuy....egory/kkr/)
Thompson had played more than a dozen film roles â including parts in The Hunt for Red October and Barbarians at the Gate â and became a star on NBCâs Law and Order , playing a New York district attorney after leaving the Senate in 2003 following the death of a daughter. (weblogs.baltimoresun.com....g/2007/08/)
If this is a sign of things to come, Herodotus would have savored the irony that, two millennia after his history, the gift of storytelling is less threatened from barbarians outside the gate than from those within (www.chron.com....42720.html)
Thompson had played more than a dozen film roles â including parts in The Hunt for Red October and Barbarians at the Gate â and became a star on NBCâs Law and Order , playing a New York district attorney after leaving the Senate in 2003 following the death of a daughter (www.swamppolitics.com....g/2007/08/)
Investment firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts pays nearly $30 billion for R.J.Reynolds-Nabisco, which merged in 1985, in the largest leveraged buyoutever. The investment deal will become the subject of a book and televisionmovie, Barbarians at the Gate (www.geocities.com....e1900.html)
Very interesting and scary, your article on Enron. Had to read it twice because it was hard for me to believe this type of disaster could happen in the U.S. in 2001. This time the "barbarians" were not at the gate, but in the kitchen (www.businessweek.com....765133.htm)
Muslims see the end coming very soon for them. I say this because they are looking for allies from the Christian faith. Before this would have been unheard of, any faith other than theirs is heresy. Christians to them are infidels. I believe they think they are witnessing the beginning of the end of Islam. I feel that this "unlawful war", as some call it (not myself of course)has the terrorists up against the ropes. They are now backed into a corner and we can not let up now, that would be seen as a sign of weakness. Their mentality is "Do unto others before they do it to you". Ours is "Say Uncle and I&ll let you go". That wont work here. The line has been drawn, we are Americans, we are the first lne of defence, we are the last, we stand at the gate gate and the barbarians are beating their shields. Our children will know us in the future for what we do now, stand and fight or retreat and fall. Tell the people there that most Americans are willing to pay their small part of the bill to keep our military there until it is safe to come hom (www.michaeltotten.com....01522.html)
David L. Deeds's Book Recommendations: "Markets may be efficient, but as this book so gleefully demonstrates, the actors in those markets are far from the rational, profit-maximizing robots of classical economic theory." -on Barbarians At The Gate (www.businessweek.com....207046.htm)
This, like Barbarians at the Gate , is a book that every management professor and business student should read at least once. The authors' readable examination of how Xerox invented and gave away the personal computer business and all that goes with it is a wonderful cautionary tale about lack of vision and narrow definitions (www.businessweek.com....207046.htm)
People who know KKR from Barbarians at the Gate may be surprised to see how far the firm has come. While wheeling and dealing are certainly still a huge part of what they do, this firm has dedicated the resources necessary to efficiently and profitably manage a $107 billion portfolio (www.bloggingbuyouts.com....d-shakers/)
Brilliant assessment once again- it used to be "the barbarians at the gate "- now it's "the zombies at the gate"- however-in o8 we will close the gates and not allow them to ente (www.huffingtonpost.com....78958.html)
Barbarians at the Gate : The Fall of RJR Nabisco By Bryan Burrough and John Helyar Widely considered one of the best business books ever written. Potentially sobering for Mr. Ballmer, given how poorly this worked out. It's especially appropriate because it was an example. (search.bnet.com....2526A.html)
but they'll close ranks around Lindsay and his man Johnny Mc against the barbarians at the gate .no doubt of that.Rush will see that the job is done (blogs.cqpolitics.com....round.html)
Real Estate Weekly; 3/26/2003; 983 words; Barbarians out of the gate: Jeff Conine is one of several major leaguers off to a strong start after finishing fast before the strike.(includes related article (www.encyclopedia.com....trike.html)
Barbarians at the Gate : The Fall of RJR Nabisco By Bryan Burrough and John Helyar Widely considered one of the best business books ever written. Potentially sobering for Mr. Ballmer, given how poorly this worked out. It's especially appropriate because it was an exampl (search.bnet.com....erald.html)
Awwwww. silly journalists. Same thinking that the barbarians at Microsoft's gate threatened the company. Who were THOSE barbarians? The freetards. Well fiction without conflict isn't very interestin (fakesteve.blogspot.com....siege.html)
Barbarians at the Gate : The Fall of RJR Nabisco By Bryan Burrough and John Helyar Widely considered one of the best business books ever written. Potentially sobering for Mr. Ballmer, given how poorly this worked out. It's especially appropriate because it was an example (search.bnet.com....nance.html)
Towards the end of the evening, there was an extraordinary exchange between Andrew Keen and Scott Rosenberg. Keen reprised the argument from his weekly standard article , defending traditional elite media from the Web 2.0 barbarians at the gate . From his article (www.berkeleyblog.com/)
Generally we find the easiest rule to adopt is the keep the barbarians out at the gate approach. Check input at the boundaries of the system, and you won't have to duplicate those tests inside the system (www.oreillynet.com....er_in.html)
Sun"wants to keep a moat against the barbarians at the gate ," he wrote inan e-mail interview . Torvalds said he does not expect developersclamoring to start playing with that source code. (blogs.sun.com....pensolaris)
Yes, there are other staples like Jim Collins57; Good to Great , On Becoming A Leader (by Warren Bennis) and Bryan Burrough57;s tome, Barbarians at the Gate . Those books are fine, but they didn57;t linger in my mind like the above five. Any other suggestions (www.businessweek.com....you_n.html)
Henry R. Kravis, whose role in the RJR Nabisco buyout was the inspiration for 60;Barbarians at the Gate ,61; is at it again, with a proposed $45 billion buyout of TXU (topics.nytimes.com...._r_kravis/)
A Golden Globe winner for his work in the HBO telefilm DecorationDay and Barbarians at the Gate , Garner has earned numerousEmmy and Golden Globe nominations for his work in the acclaimed telefilms Heartsounds, Promise, My Name is Bill W., Decoration Day, and Breathing Lessons. (www.womacknet.net....garner.htm)
"Score one for the barbarians" - so reads the New York Post today. The reference, of course, is to Barbarians at the Gate , the sordid tale of the leveraged buyout of RJR Nabisco in the 1980s. Today, the private equity barbarians have won another battle: there will be no new tax on carried interest, at least not this year (www.bloggingbuyouts.com....gulations/)
OK, we've heard this war chant end in wails of disappointment before 52; its practically a blueprint for epic failure 52; but can Apple keep the barbarians at the gate forever (www.theregister.co.uk....ce_rumors/)
It57;s not new, this assault on reason, this tearing down of the whole idea of 60;experts61; and 60;professionals61;, but the barbarians inside the gate running the country now seem to have pulled out all the stops, as highlighted in two stories over the past couple of days (www.liberalstreetfighter.com....g/2006/01/)
What The Economist did not mention was the pillage of corporations by private equity groups. Although the very critical 1990 book about a private equity group Barbarians at the Gate was mentioned, it was not discussed by the magazine. Certainly, worth noting was its report of the leveraged buyout of $18.9 billion, âthe biggest river of money to course through the U.S. financial system. (www.cosmiciguana.com/2006/11/)
France knew the story of storylessness back at the beginning of the nineteenth century, when Flaubert chronicled Emma Bovary's empty hours. Britain knew it in the later half of the century, until, as always happens, the barbarians are at the gate, the hermetic platitude of the prosperous everyday crumbles into alienation, cancerous self-awareness, and collapse (www.long-sunday.net....y/2005/09/)
But, in the early 1990s, after LBO guys fought an unseemly barbarians at the gate takeover battle over RJR, they decided that leveraged buyouts wasn't a classy name anymore. So LBO houses began calling themselves private equity firms (www.pbs.org....s/070130f/)
However this may be-for our information at this point of the story is miserably meagre-on the 24th of August 410 Alaric and his . Goths burst in by the Salarian gate on the north-east of the city, and she who was of late the mistress of the world lay at the feet of the barbarians. The Goths showed themselves not absolutely ruthless conquerors. The contemporary ecclesiastics recorded with wonder many instances of their clemency: the Christian churches saved from ravage; protection granted to vast multitudes both of pagans and Christians who took refuge therein; vessels of gold and silver which were found in a private dwelling, spared because they belonged to St. Peter at least one case in which a beautiful Roman matron appealed, not in vain, to the better feelings of the Cothic soldier who attempted her dishonour; but even these exceptional instances show that Rome was not enlirely spared those scenes of horror which usually accompany the storming of a besieged city. We do not, however, hear of any damage wrought by fire, save in the case of Sallust's palace, which was situated close to the gate by which the Goths had made their entrance; nor is there any reason to attribute any extensive destruction of the buildings of the city to Alaric and his follower (historymedren.about.com....aric_3.htm)
Other reasons for the fall of Rome may be just as credible and equally modern sounding. Like the US under Bush, Rome lacked adequate budgetary controls, resources were wasted, defense was outsourced, not to Blackwater but to barbarians. As in the US, the Roman economy had become a Ponzi scheme premised upon conquest and plunder -perpetual war. Wealth trickled up, not down. A landed elite escaped taxation as they robbed poorer farmers of their lands. A "Roman dole" never paid its own way. Roman society was rotten, top heavy and broke. I can support my thesis that Rome's own currency had already collapsed by the time the Praetorian Guard auctioned off the empire to an aristocrat-Didius Julianus. Rome would have fallen if the barbarians had not gathered at the gate. [See: America's Indebted Prosperity (existentialistcowboy.blogspot.com....chive.html)
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"Sometimes the veneer of überpoliteness breaks down. I recall when David Geffen participated in a digital-barbarians-at-the-gate discussion that was slickly moderated by thenâIntel Corp. chairman Andy Grove. âWhat am I doing on this panel? I donât know anything about technology,â Geffen griped, seated alongside Idei, Rupert Murdoch, Barry Diller, Edgar Bronfman Jr., and departed FCC chairman Reed Hundt. Or the time Diller began a sentence with âMy intuition.â and Grove sputtered, âDonât let the facts get in the way of your grand intuition, Barry.â This stuff might sound polite, but in that rarefied air itâs the equivalent of farting in publi (www.deadlinehollywooddaily.com....la-weekly/)
The only real change here is that authority must now compete with everyone else, rather than holding a privileged position. The fact that it is floundering in many cases51;some of which you cite51;suggests to me more that authority is doing a very poor job than that it is inherently incapable of standing against the barbarians at the gate and needs to be propped up. Journalists are a perfect example of a category of expert that has squandered its claim to special legitimacy, and the limitations of 60;citizen journalists61; may prove preferable to the cowardice and profit motive of the professionals (blogs.britannica.com....on-part-i/)
Larry Gelbart will deliver the commencement address at UCLA's School of Theater, Film and Television on June 15. And who better to advise in all three fields? He received three Emmys, two Tonys, N.Y. and LA. Film Critics Awards-also, awards from the Writers Guild and N.Y. Drama Critics. In the theater, his credits include A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Sly Fox, Mastergate and City of Angels . In Films, Gelbart gave us Oh God!, Tootsie , as well as the filmed A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. On television, Gelbart's unequaled credit is M.A.S.H., as well as Mastergate, Barbarians at the Gate . His contributions to the arts in showbiz should also include his beginnings in radio with shows for Bob Hope , Jackie Gleason , Eddie Cantor Jack Paar, Jack Carson and Joan Davis. (www.armyarcherd.com/2007/05/)
Barbarians at the Gate was a great read but whoâs up for a new book by the voice of our generation? By a day trader so great he turned $12,415 in Bar Mitzvah money into a fully audited pre-tax sum of $1.65 million, a writer so wonderful he just might trump Mergers and Acquisitions in book sales? Anyone not vigorously shaking his/her yes is a liar and a fool. Yes, friends, hedge fund guru Tim Sykes has a book. Unfortunately, he doesnât have a publisher other than himself. And master of his own publicity as he is, he needs a little help. So weâll be excerpting his memoir, âAn American Hedge Fund: How I Made $2 Million As A Stock Operator & Created A Hedge Fundâ whenever the mood strikes us, and if you like it, you can buy it (in October), and if you donât (and/or have some edits), you can email Tim at Tim at timothysykes dot com. (dealbreaker.com/2007/06/)
Anybody who wrote for Jack Paar, Bob Hope , Danny Thomas and Sid Caesar in their heydays, palled around with Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner and lived to tell funny stories about it deserves all the kudos this biz has to offer. So good for the Humanitas org for giving its Kieser Award to Larry Gelbart. His resume includes everything from radio and Broadway shows to the small-screen adaptation of MASH to HBO's Barbarians at the Gate , Weapons of Mass Distraction, Showtime 's Mastergate and another very funny HBO telepic from a few years back, And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself. He's good at slaying pomposity and mendacity, without being mean or vulgar, and his work almost always has something deeper to say about whatever slice of the human condition he's examining at the time. One piece of Gelbart-ana that's ripe for DVD revival is Mastergate, his 1992 parody of the Iran-Contra hearings (or more accurately a parody of TV coverage of Iran-Contra hearings) (weblogs.variety.com....r/2007/05/)
From the buyer's side of the table, one complication can be the euphoria that typically sets in. Often, the exciting atmosphere of dealmaking leads to overpaying. John Chuang, president of Cambridge-based MacTemps Inc., a temporary-placement company, admits getting a charge from the frantic phone calls, high-pressure ultimatums, reams of documents, and investment bankers rushing from room to room. His first acquisition of another temporary-placement outfit reminded him of the kind of high-stakes dealmaking he had only read about in Barbarians at the Gate . ``You have to know at what point you're just going to walk away,'' Chuang says. (www.businessweek.com....346720.htm)
I liked The Last King of Scotland because I have a preference for unreliable narrators who become entangled in reprehensible things. High on my list of favorite books are The Good Soldier , The Remains of the Day , Artist of the Floating World, A Gesture Life, The Eye in the Door, The God of Small Things, Barbarians at the Gate . Protagonists attempting to ethically negotiate an evil system always fascinate me. Most of these stories involve war, obviously. I also have a special love of stories in which someone goes from feeling wholly protected to realizing that they57;ve either wandered out of sight of shelter or been thrown in with the enemy . A skillful author can make the reader believe in that security until it suddenly vanishes. Many of those stories involve Westerners travelling, or fighting, abroad (www.feministe.us....s/2006/09/)
The terrorists did not and cannot cripple this nation. But the Federal Aviation Administration paralyzed it when it ordered the grounding of all flights throughout this country ("Keeping the barbarians away from the gate," Sept. 24). To achieve their true ends, terrorists rely on fear. They count on us to react in ways that compromise or cripple our own nation's functioning, repeal the civil liberties so highly paid for by our predecessors, and degrade the standard of living that they so despis (www.businessweek.com....751010.htm)
A: There have always been villains. The whole history of RJR [as laid out in the book] Barbarians at the Gate - that was a truly disgusting manipulation of our capitalist system. The founder of Columbia Pictures , it was written that when he died, 2,000 people went to his funeral to make sure he was dead. GE had the price-fixing scandals in the 1950s. Monopolistic practices at IBM. The modern corporation is a perfect vehicle for a small number of people to enrich themselves at the cost of everyone else (www.businessweek.com....800021.htm)
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