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JOHN MALONE HATES IT THAT SOME PEOPLE THINK OF HIM AS A BOARDROOM bandit. The country's most powerful cable operator--whose 21% stake in Turner Broadcasting gave him potential veto power over last week's big merger--has been variously described as Darth Vader, Andrew Carnegie and Genghis Khan. Such comparisons, says Malone, have him all wrong. He's shocked, shocked by reports that he held up the merger--first by insisting that Time Warner do away with its "poison pill" takeover defense, then by demanding seats on the board--until he had squeezed all the juice he could...
...crematory light of those blasts, the world changed--so much death contained in so little; so much of the bloody business of war refined to a bloodless decision. Ultimately it all came down to science, to a matter of buttons. In a flash, Prometheus was one with Genghis Khan...
Faruk Ashraf Khan...
...Khan Professor of Iranian P. Oktor Skjaervowill be the Department's chair, beginning thisfall...
...that almost 400 villages were eliminated, in the sense that they were "destroyed completely, with their houses, garden-walls, and even cemeteries and tombstones, so that literally a stone does not remain standing, and visitors are passing and being told that "it was all desert.'" When Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, the U.N. High Commissioner for refugees, referred to the Bosnians as "the Palestinians of Europe," perhaps he also should have referred to the Serbs as "the Israelis of Europe." Indeed, the pattern of their thinking and practices is terrifyingly similar...