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Edelman got a taste of his own tactics last September, when Manhattan lawyer Martin Ackerman launched a proxy war for Datapoint. Edelman responded by entrenching himself more deeply. In a two-day blitz of stock buying, Edelman boosted his stake from 10% to 40%, largely by purchasing stock with cash from Intelogic Trace. Edelman won, but pride had its price: Datapoint shares have fallen an additional 25% in value...
...obliged to pay the bills because it accepted the proposed bid, which fell apart when the banks could not raise enough money to finance the buyout. (Citicorp and Chase Manhattan will receive a total of $8 million for their work.) The fees have infuriated some UAL shareholders, since the payments will come out of the company's profits...
Wilson's script concerns itself with big themes like art, death, sex and love, and it addresses them in the lower Manhattan apartment of Anna (Nell Benjamin) and her friend Larry (Alan Krischer...
...today's 1 p.m. semifinal, Connecticut (2-1) faces the Jaspers of Manhattan (3-1). The Huskies have beaten Penn State, 93-84, in overtime and Holy Cross, 73-71, while losing to nationally-ranked Iowa, 81-49, in theHawkeye Classic. Junior Kerry Bascom (21 pointsand 9.3 rebounds per game) and senior Co-CaptainKris Lamb (11.7 p.p.g. and 7.3 r.p.g.) are themain threats for UConn. Both are close to scoringtheir 1000th career point--Bascom has 945 pointsand Lamb...
...domestic-partnership movement, says David Blankenhorn of the Institute for American Values, a Manhattan-based group that studies family issues, "just misses the whole point of why we confer privileges on family relationships." As Archbishop Quinn argues, "The permanent commitment of husband and wife in marriage is intrinsically tied to the procreation and raising of children." Despite the emergence of women in the workplace and changes in the traditional structure of family dependency, it is still necessary for most families to share rights and benefits in order to raise children and remain financially secure...