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Financial experts attribute HMC's success in keeping the University's endowment the largest in the nation to two major points--the company's relative independence from Harvard and Cabot's adventurous investment style...
...whole loaf, but De Klerk's speech delivered more than most veteran black leaders had expected. Popo Molefe, Secretary-General of the United Democratic Front, the largest domestic antiapartheid coalition, told the cheering Cape Town crowd that of all the white leaders, "De Klerk has taken the boldest step and is the most courageous." Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the Nobel laureate, said the speech "has certainly taken my breath away," and his fellow campaigner, the Rev. Allan Boesak, was surprised "that he met so many of the demands...
...crowning blow came in the fall of 1988, when Shearson lost the $25 billion buyout battle for RJR Nabisco, the largest takeover fight in history. Wall Street insiders contend that Cohen -- whose firm had advised F. Ross ( Johnson, then the head of RJR, in his original bid for the company -- stumbled badly by assuming that takeover specialist Henry Kravis would stay out of the running for RJR. Kravis surprised Cohen with a higher bid and eventually outmaneuvered the Shearson executive...
That is beginning to change. Across the U.S., thousands of aging Americans are happily tapping away at keyboards and trading floppy disks, thanks to a new wave of computer-literacy programs designed with the elderly user in mind. The largest of these is SeniorNet, the first national organization dedicated to bringing senior citizens into the information age. Since it was founded at the University of San Francisco in 1986, the nonprofit organization has trained nearly 4,000 of the elderly at 26 sites in the U.S. and Canada, including doctors' offices, retirement homes, senior centers, high schools and colleges...
Nasrallah Sfeir, the patriarch of Lebanon's Maronites, the country's largest Christian group, pleaded in vain for the factions to stop fighting. "This is suicide," he lamented...