Sometimes ABC News president David Westin likes to reach out to the hundreds of people working beneath him to let them know about an exciting project underway at the network. Sometimes Westin also likes to reach out to the hundreds of people working beneath him to remind them how corporate synergy works.

In an email Westin sent out last night, he spams the entire ABC News staff with a few words about Randy Pausch, the professor and father of three with terminal pancreatic cancer. He's been telling his story on Good Morning America's "Last Lecure" — and now he's got a book out from sister company Hyperion! And also: "It turns out that Dr. Pausch's connections with the Walt Disney Company go back a very long way; he always aspired to be an Disney Imagineer."

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