She chairs an eight-member panel that controls the family's stake, and sits on Bertelsmann's supervisory board.
Carolyn Greenspon, a fifth-generation member of the family that controls The New York Times Company, was elected as a director.
Mr. Koo, 35, is a fourth-generation member of a family that controls a vast empire in banking, telecommunications, cement and cable television.
Mr. Cohen, a member of the family that controls the company through a special class of stock, is a first cousin of Arthur Sulzberger Jr., the company chairman.
With his wife, the former Marian Sulzberger Dryfoos -- a member of the family that controls The New York Times Company -- Mr. Heiskell often lent his name and his presence to fund-raising events for cultural institutions.
That severely limits GM's possible room for manoeuvre.It is all very well for Umberto Agnelli, a senior member of the family that controls Fiat, to admit to shareholders this week that Fiat Auto's future might not lie within Fiat, and that Fiat itself might even cease to be a strategic investment for the Agnellis.
Most observers reckon that the pair fell out over VW's strategy but are astounded that the wily Mr Piëch (pictured, centre), a member of the family that controls the German carmaker, was forced to resign on April 25th, instead of pushing out Mr Winterkorn (pictured, right).
One of the novelties of devolution in Wales is that a measure passed last year requires each local authority to have a "democratic services" committee, chaired by a councillor who is not a member of the party that controls the council, to help rank and file councillors hold the administration to account.
Dr. Judith P. Sulzberger, a physician whose philanthropy led to the creation of a center for genome studies in her name at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons, and a member of the family that controls The New York Times, died on Monday at her home in Manhattan.She was 87.Her death was confirmed by her son Daniel Cohen.Dr.
