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...This town is too small for the both of us," says Nigel Sairbrass, spokesman for SABMiller. So his company tried something new. Because the remaining 40-odd percent of shares are listed on the open market in Hong Kong, it was able to issue last week's buyout offer for all outstanding shares. Harbin Brewery's ceo has been vociferous about his preference for a marriage with A-B, but the decision isn't his to make. Instead, his company's future hinges on shareholders, who should soon vote on SABMiller's bid?or on an expected counteroffer from...
...Harvard, Dahroug has worked for the Harvard Civil Rights Project and cross-registered in courses at the Kennedy School of Government and the Law School while tending bar and doing “odd jobs” to support himself...
...certainly seems like an odd way to make a point. In what he describes as “an act of civil disobedience with the aim of improving public safety,” 20-year-old Nathaniel T. Heatwole spent seven months over the course of 2003 smuggling box cutters, matches and bleach onto various Southwest Airlines flights. Following his highly illegal but completely undetected actions, Heatwole sent an email to the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) in which he acknowledged the criminal nature of the acts but claimed that his pseudo-terrorist doings were motivated by the desire to make...
...second varsity eight has also had an odd year of racing, which has included a near tie with the Bears in the dark on choppy water and a victory over Yale due to a Bulldog disqualification...
...sometimes Neil Young. And while listeners may whistle the tune from “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes,” the smash single Stills penned, they don’t realize that they’re singing the catch phrases of radical politics. Take another listen: after seven-odd minutes of folky guitar licks, pitch-perfect harmonies and snatches of soul-baring poetry, Stills starts crooning something in Spanish about Cuba...