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Kutzinski said that although she respects Gates and Harvard's program, she believes Yale devotes more attention to its undergraduates...
...addition to rewriting Europe's business rules, the Mannesmann deal marked a political watershed. When Vodafone's proposal was first announced, German Chancellor Gerhard Schroder issued a thinly veiled warning about outsiders interfering with Germany's corporate system. But in the intervening months, although labor unions expressed concern about the deal, the government never again raised the issue in a substantive...
...Although cross-border takeovers were widely predicted to be one of the early benefits of the introduction of the euro by 11 European countries on Jan. 1, 1999, there had been few hostile cross-border transactions before last week's deal. In part, the domestic bias of mergers can be explained by the relative ease of making them work when both companies are in a home market. But government intervention, particularly in France and Italy, has kept foreign banks from making planned bids...
...Although he claims to have traveled on foot through 13 countries and 47 states since 1991, Joseph says he has never stayed in one area as long as he has here (his driver's license record had him intermittently in Toledo, Ohio, and the Bronx). As many as 2,000 people at a time have come to hear him speak. They have gathered out in the fields to pray through the night. They have stopped him on the street to talk one on one, unburden themselves of problems and ask for his prayers. They have called in to a local...
...animation will tend to be jerky or slow. Superpowered boy bands or Web surfers kicking butt online (where Slyme's "magical shovel is one of the most feared artifacts throughout cyberspace," according to the website) may seem, well, lame. Today's comics tend toward dark, complicated stories, and although that's arguably an evolution of Lee's innovations, he complains that the new breed has "lost" youngsters. "I don't see any reason not to do a story that an entire family can enjoy," he says...