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	Levin, Gerald
		Gerald M. Levin is chairman and chief executive officer of Time Warner Inc., a position to which he was elected in 1993.
		Levin proposed that all national program distribution be accomplished by satellite transmission, a concept that transformed the U.S. premium-cable industry and led to a dramatic increase in the number of satellite-delivered cable networks.
		Gerald Levin is a champion of electronic media services, and he has risen through the corporate ranks to an influential position as the chief executive of one of the world's largest media organizations.
	www.museum.tv /archives/etv/L/htmlL/levingerald/levingerald.htm (783 words)

	Center for Digital Democracy \| The Threat to the Net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Levin, Time Warner embarked on a political and legal campaign that ultimately weakened the First Amendment rights of citizens, harmed consumers and currently threatens the future of the Internet.
		But the rules that Levin's Time Warner have fought were designed to guarantee that cable TV didn't have a monopoly over the viewpoints expressed on what are already basically local monopolies.
		Levin well as he moves on to work on social and philanthropic issues, I can't help but point out that his tenure at Time Warner -- while good for stockholders -- has not been positive for America's democratic stakeholders.
	www.democraticmedia.org /resources/articles/levin.html (849 words)

	AIM Report - August A 1992
		Gerald Levin didn't tell the truth when he was asked if the directors unanimously supported his views on Ice-T and his Cop Killer song.
		Gerald Levin, the champion of this garbage, is still in charge, as Chairman Steve Ross is very ill. Levin should resign and take Ice-T with him.
		Levin said the cameras and recorders were barred for security reasons and because he wanted to give everyone a chance to be heard.
	www.aim.org /publications/aim_report/1992/08a.html (4291 words)

	AOL Time Warner CEO Gerald Levin to retire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Levin revealed he had a special provision inserted into his employment contract in 1997 after his son, Jonathan, an English teacher, was killed in New York by a former student.
		Levin did not describe in the e-mail what those moral and social issues were.
		Levin joined Time in 1972 to help develop a new cable service called Home Box Office and was instrumental in the 1975 decision to distribute its programs nationally by satellite, a key element in bringing about the development of the modern cable industry.
	www.usatoday.com /tech/techinvestor/2001/12/05/levin-aol.htm (713 words)

	That's Gerald Levin, Folks! - Harbus - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Levin credits several sources for what he calls his "moral leadership." First, when Levin attended Haverford College, 50 of the 125 students in his class were expelled within the first three weeks of classes for failing to adhere to the school's strict Honor Code.
		Levin outlined three principles for the process of choosing a successor, a timely topic given that in 30 days Dick Parsons is set to take over the reins as CEO of AOL Time Warner.
		Levin was duly horrified when a member of his staff questioned what the margin erosion would be due to the additional coverage dedicated to 9/11.
	www.harbus.org /news/2002/04/22/news/thats.gerald.levin.folks-241760.shtml (1225 words)

	Gerald M. Levin and Jill M. Considine Elected to the New York Fed Board of Directors - 2002 Official Appointments - ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Levin was appointed for the unexpired portion of a three-year term ending December 31, 2003 and succeeds Charles A. Heimbold, Jr., chairman and chief executive officer of Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, as a class C director.
		Levin as deputy chairman of the board of directors of the New York Fed for the year 2002.
		Levin was the chairman and chief executive officer of Time Warner Inc. He became CEO of Time Warner in December 1992 and was elected chairman of the board in January 1993.
	www.ny.frb.org /newsevents/news/aboutthefed/2002/oa020123.html (648 words)

	The Gambler: Leading Time Warner's Digital Makeover
		Levin cast himself in this union of old and new media in rather simple terms, clearly intending to ensure that he is not portrayed as a symbol of the old, dinosaur media.
		Levin and other executives were forced to transform the merger into a $14 billion acquisition of Warner.
		Levin's career in 1997 that his son, Jonathan M. Levin, a schoolteacher, was murdered in his apartment by a former student who was later convicted of the killing.
	partners.nytimes.com /library/financial/011100time-levin.html (584 words)

	Time Warner's Gerald Levin - He's being overlooked again. He likes that. By David Plotz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Levin could have grandstanded as a champion of political reform, but he did not say a word.
		Levin ruthlessly sacked his own protégé and heir-apparent Michael Fuchs when it appeared Fuchs was questioning the Turner merger.
		Levin once said that the most important lesson he had learned was not to be afraid of complex technology.
	slate.msn.com /?id=72920 (1471 words)

	Online NewsHour: Megamerger Masters -- January 12, 2000
		GERALD LEVIN: Well, what's really happening now is we've seen two strands, one through the PC, and one through the television set.
		GERALD LEVIN: What we've found, and I'm a product of my own experience, where we actually built a fully interactive system some years ago before the availability of all this technology.
		GERALD LEVIN: I'm recalling when I was a young person and joined Time Inc. and I went to dinner with some of my elders who actually worked with Henry Luce and Roy Larson.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/business/jan-june00/aol_01-12.html (3559 words)

	TIME Digital -- Cyber Elite - GERALD LEVIN
		Laden with debt from the merger of Time Inc. (publisher of TIME DIGITAL) and Warner Bros., Levin took most of the heat in the press and from investors for the stock's poor performance.
		But he has persevered, and now his huge investments in cable and the $7 billion acquisition of Turner Broadcasting are paying off, with Time Warner's stock hitting all-time highs in the past year.
		By betting on cable, Levin created a cash cow for Time Warner, but it is now becoming evident that his investment was also a shrewd look to the future.
	www.time.com /time/digital/cyberelite/34.html (252 words)

	Los Angeles Business Journal: Levin Overpaid Despite Record of Success - Commentary - Gerald Levin, departing chief ...
		Levin's success at running the company is only part of the reason he got paid so much.
		Although Levin received $8.3 million of salary, $49.3 million of bonuses and $3.8 million of miscellaneous compensation from 1993 through 2000, the bulk of his pay came from stock options.
		The good one is that Levin is one of only a handful of CEOs who have taken options that were out of the money at the time of their grant.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m5072/is_51_23/ai_81226449 (884 words)

	Forbes.com: Levin's Legacy At AOL Time Warner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		There on the stage was Gerald Levin, taking his final bow as chief executive of AOL Time Warner to tepid applause from an audience of bitterly disappointed shareholders.
		Levin's replacement, Richard Parsons, is an African-American, whose accession to the CEO job at the world's biggest media company is seen as evidence of social progress.
		Levin made his mark with the 1975 decision to distribute HBO via satellite.
	www.forbes.com /technology/ecommerce/2002/05/17/0517levin.html (599 words)

	Case, Levin: A study in contrasts - Jan. 11, 2001
		Levin, on the other hand, is a product of Haverford College, University of Pennsylvania Law School and the former Time Inc., known for its stiff corporate culture and bureaucratic ideals that some industry pundits believe could kill many a venture simply by meeting it to death.
		Pittman is in the unique position of having the trust of both Case and Levin, having served as Case's chief lieutenant since 1996, when he brought his showbiz style over from Time Warner, where he ran Six Flags amusement parks after having overseen the launch of MTV.
		And, despite their differences, Case and Levin have shown nothing but a unified front in public and, by this point, undoubtedly feel like brothers-in-arms, given the arduous regulatory review of their proposed union on both sides of the Atlantic.
	money.cnn.com /2001/01/11/deals/HFRcase_levin (1261 words)

	Gerald Levin speaks on role of Internet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Speaking in Town and Gown to a packed house of students, guests and faculty, Levin emphasized that literacy is still a key in the digital economy.
		Levin, who was the leading architect of the Time Inc. and Warner Communication merger in 1990, told the audience that it was essential that government as well as business change their ways in this new era of technology.
		Levin criticized the way the government dealt with the merger.
	www.usc.edu /student-affairs/dt/V142/N58/01-gerald.58c.html (488 words)

	CNN - Suspects arrested in Levin murder - June 7, 1997
		Levin, 31, was found Monday in his Upper West Side apartment bound, stabbed and shot.
		Police said they believe Arthur tortured Levin at knife-point to obtain his ATM code, turning up the stereo and a vacuum cleaner to keep neighbors from hearing the screams.
		There were no signs of forced entry into Levin's apartment, leading police to believe he knew his assailant.
	www.cnn.com /US/9706/07/levin (249 words)

	AOL Time Warner gets a new CEO (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Gerald Levin, left, will step down in May. Richard Parsons will be the first African-American CEO of a major media company.
		Levin says he's delivering on a pledge he made to his family, and himself, to pay more attention to the right side of his brain.
		Levin says that with AOL Time Warner's first birthday coming in January, this is his first chance to leave.
	www.usatoday.com /tech/techinvestor/2001/12/06/aols-new-ceo.htm (1755 words)

	Vincent Fellowship/Levin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Levin was elected chairman of the board of Time Warner in 1993 and was the leading architect of the Time-Warner merger, as well as the prime mover of Time Warner's agreement to merge with Turner Broadcasting.
		A strong advocate for liberal arts education, Levin is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Haverford College, where he is a former chair of the board.
		In addition, Levin will visit a religion class, "Issues in Contemporary Religious Thought: The Holocaust," taught by Associate Professor of Religion Louis Newman, and will be a guest speaker at Carleton's commemoration of Yom HaShoah, the Holocaust Day of Remembrance.
	www.carleton.edu /campus/newsbureau/pr/levin.html (460 words)

	Career Services : University of Vermont
		Gerald Levin built Time Warner Inc. into the world's leading media and entertainment company and was the leading architect of its merger with Warner Communications.
		At UVM, Levin and his wife, Barbara, created the Jonathan Levin Scholarship Fund to provide educational opportunities to students from urban areas who might not otherwise be able to attend and to create a more diverse educational community.
		The scholarship was named in honor of Gerald Levin's son, who taught English at the William Howard Taft High School in the Bronx.
	www.uvm.edu /campus_life/career_services?Page=News&storyID=1710 (433 words)

	MediaChannel.org - NEWS DISSECTOR \| Gerald Tse-tung
		Chairman Levin was so popular that I couldn't even squeeze into the packed hotel ballroom in which he was offering a "fireside chat" (on a day when the temperatures hovered in the 90s) to a small army of investors and financial analysts.
		Levin was upbeat, explaining that the shareholders have embraced the deal by 97 percent margins, which sounds like what those old-fashioned Chairmen on the other side used to claim about their rigged votes in manipulated elections.
		One key profit center is music, which Chairman Levin referred to poetically as "the harmony of the gods." He likes it because, in his words, it "invests itself in your psyche." Unlike others in the industry, he is not worried about Napster or MP3.
	www.mediachannel.org /views/dissector/chairman.shtml (1615 words)

	CEO Levin to retire from AOL Time Warner \| CNET News.com
		Levin's tenure as head of the world's largest media company can be interpreted through his cunning survival instinct.
		Turner and Levin publicly engaged in a war of words, with Turner considering the sale the "biggest mistake of my life." Turner has since been pushed out of the company, a move he has repeatedly blamed on Levin's boardroom behavior.
		But Levin leaves before proving the value of a merger that could be become the measure of his career.
	news.com.com /2100-1023-276617.html (1339 words)

	More Mr. Nice Guy By Rob Walker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Yesterday Levin dealt with it by announcing his retirement, effective in May of next year.
		Levin, in the Fortune "smartest people" roundup, went on to say: "Now is when some instinctive human compassion is required, combined with fierce determination to be focused on clear objectives.
		Levin himself does not appear to have forged a successful career out of kindly consensus-building, but rather out of shrewdness and determination.
	slate.msn.com /id/2059516 (603 words)

	That's All, Folks!
		Levin's unexpected exit could mean that he knows that the next couple of years will not be nearly as bright or bold as he once predicted.
		Levin has spent a lot of time recently talking about the company's "sacred trust" as national storyteller.
		Levin arranged to have an out clause in his contract after his son Jonathan -- a high-school teacher -- was murdered by a former student in 1997, an event that left him fundamentally changed.
	www.newyorkmetro.com /nymetro/news/bizfinance/biz/features/5500 (781 words)

	Gerald Levin, recently retired AOL Time Warner CEO, to speak on 'The Future of Media' Oct. 15
		A recognized pioneer in the development and growth of interactive media, Levin formerly was chairman and CEO of Time Warner Inc. He was elected chairman of the board in 1993 and was a leading architect of the company’s historic merger with AOL in 2001.
		Levin made the historic 1975 decision to distribute HBO via satellite, which helped create the modern cable industry.
		Levin is a director of the New York Stock Exchange and serves on a variety of boards, including those of the New York Philharmonic, the National Cable Television Center and Museum, New York City’s Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, the Aspen Institute and other organizations.
	www.stthomas.edu /bulletin/news/200241/Monday/Levin10_7_02.cfm?ArticleID=1021 (591 words)

	News Release (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		As CEO, Gerald Levin was in charge of all the company’s businesses and divisions.
		Levin was chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Time Warner when he acted as the chief architect of the historic merger between AOL and his company in 2001.
		Levin serves as a Director of the New York Stock Exchange Inc. He is also a member of the boards of many cultural, religious and social organizations.
	www.sunynassau.edu /collegerel/news/archives/03_03/031203_2.html (242 words)

	BBC News \| BUSINESS \| AOL's Levin to step down early
		Mr Levin's decision to step down in May 2002, at the age of 63, has surprised analysts who were not expecting him to leave so soon.
		Mr Levin also revealed on Wednesday that he asked for a provision to be inserted into his employment contract in 1997 to allow him to retire early.
		Mr Levin wrote in the memo: "I felt that once my work was completed and I was satisfied with the company's direction and progress, I'd invoke that provision and turn my full energies to the moral and social issues I feel so passionate about.
	news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/business/newsid_1694000/1694472.stm (545 words)

	AOL Time Warner chief decides to leave company
		Gerald Levin, chief executive of media giant AOL Time Warner, shocked Wall Street yesterday by saying he will resign and be replaced by Richard Parsons, the firm's co-chief operating officer.
		Levin, 62, said in a statement that his resignation was intended to bring "a new era of leadership" to AOL Time Warner, the world's largest media company.
		In his memo to employees, Levin said he laid the path for his departure in 1997, after his son Jonathan, an English teacher in New York, was murdered by a former student.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/12/06/BU238124.DTL&type=business (941 words)

	Life & Times at TownHall Transcripts: Show #207
		Gerald Levin has been called the most powerful person in media and communication.
		Levin's efforts have established a media empire that includes CNN, HBO, Time Magazine, the nation's second largest cable company and a leading high-speed Internet access service.
		Today, Gerald Levin speaks to Town Hall Los Angeles about the role of the media in an age of global terrorism.
	www.kcet.org /lifeandtimes/archives/townhall/207.php (2882 words)

	Murderous U.S. Judges (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Levin is "retiring", something that nobody believed either on Wall Street or in Hollywood.
		Indeed, in a recent interview with The New Yorker magazine, Gerald M. Levin said that "he had no timetable for retiring." "This is the best it's ever been," he added.
		However, it remains to be seen whether the next CEO, Richard Parsons, will try to right the monstrous crimes of CEO Levin, or use his influence with President Bush to subvert the law, in an effort to shield AOL Time Warner Inc. from civil and criminal liability.
	murderoususjudges.com /updates.html (995 words)

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