Saturday, August 20, 2005
About turn a hard act to swallow
Rupert Murdoch's "policy change" over a poison pill has caused widespread distaste, Kate Askew and Lisa Murray report.
If he wasn't fast approaching seventy-five years of age, one might think Keith Rupert Murdoch was plumbing the depths of that fashionable male syndrome, the mid-life crisis.
At a Vanity Fair Oscars party in February, Rupert cut a craggy but distinguished profile with his neatly groomed, receding grey hair. By July 5 at the Allen & Co media conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, the most powerful player in world media was sporting hair dye which jumped from chocolate to an unattractive shade of butter the closer it got to his scalp.
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