David Geffen News
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Sands China Ltd. is giving Shrek and Kung Fu Panda a home at its Macau gambling resorts.
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DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc., producer of the box-office hit “The Croods,” plans to nominate Universal Music Group Chief Executive Officer Lucian Grainge and former Hulu LLC CEO Jason Kilar to its board.
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Mark Moy came to the U.S. from China, paid his way through medical school at the University of Illinois in the 1970s and became an emergency room physician.
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In “Inventing David Geffen,” singer Jackson Browne recalls the day he phoned his old pal and manager to offer congratulations on a particularly lucrative business deal.
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Intuitive Surgical Inc., the maker of robots used in 367,000 U.S. operations last year, is facing accusations in lawsuits that it put patients at risk by marketing the machinery to doctors without providing adequate training.
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David Geffen, the billionaire entertainment executive, will donate $100 million to the University of California, Los Angeles, to help medical students graduate without debt.
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In a remote cave 1,600 feet below New Mexico’s Carlsbad Caverns National Park, Hazel Barton, a microbiologist working with Cubist Pharmaceuticals Inc., has found a drug-resistant bacteria that may one day help extend the life of Cubist’s best-selling antibiotic, Cubicin.
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Cynthia Stafford’s career sounds like a Hollywood movie pitch: A single woman who quits her job to raise her deceased brother’s five kids wins part of a $112 million lottery jackpot.
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Business moguls who favor stricter gun-control laws -- among them Bloomberg LP founder and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, financier George Soros and entertainment honcho David Geffen -- are in the unique position of being able to put their money where their mouths are, and with a single bold move can change the raging gun debate in a way that intransigent politicians cannot.
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House Majority Leader Eric Cantor has an “edge” that is, says William Daley on this week’s Frontline, an “acquired taste.”
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