Word: fitness
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...group, which sponsors speakers and conferences, will apply to the Trust to make up these funds too. Yet Chao worries that WISHR might need to tailor its programming to fit the goals of the grant committee...
...agreed that if any deal were to happen, it would be a merger of equals, although Viacom is clearly the acquiring party. "I had always thought of CBS as a network," says Redstone. "But it's much more than that." Redstone saw a good fit. CBS was strong domestically; Viacom was growing fast internationally. And shareholders had long expressed concerns that Redstone, who remains in fine fettle, had no clear successor. Karmazin, a darling on Wall Street for driving up the stock price of CBS, and of Infinity Broadcasting before that, would neatly resolve that issue...
...much to base accusations of anti-Semitism on," remarks historian Father Pierre Blet of the 1919 letter. A similar tendentiousness, he says, mars Cornwell's whole work: "He ignores a great deal of material which doesn't fit his theory and makes grave accusations without supplying the evidence." Blet was one of four Jesuits who compiled the official 12-volume record of Pius' war years from Vatican archives. He too has a new book: a useful summary titled Pius XII and the Second World War. Blet maintains that the 1933 pact was "practically imposed by Hitler." And papal power...
...campus of 1,380. It is more common to see students at games wearing Swarthmore math department T shirts (WE MATH GOOD) than football jerseys. "A lot of people don't care about football here," said senior Paul Dickson, an engineering major. "It doesn't exactly fit into the culture." But the team's ignominious run has aroused the curious. Said another senior, Abbas Ebrahim: "There's the whole Cinderella thing about the streak." As he spoke, Swarthmore scored on a long touchdown pass. The student section erupted. Ebrahim and Dickson bumped chests...
DRIVING MISS DAISY One of the biggest tensions between elderly parents and their children comes when the kids question whether Mom and Dad have lost too much of their eyesight and reflexes to drive a car safely. Few states make sure the elderly are fit to sit behind the wheel. Only Illinois retests older drivers, and attempts to pass a similar bill in California were shelved last week after strong opposition from the senior lobby. Even so, a new poll by the Field Institute reveals that 83% of Californians favor exams for those over 75. Also favoring the tests were...