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...wish I had found more that was genuinely new, but for the most part, the $5 billion-a-year electronic-games industry is playing follow the leader. Shoot-'em-ups are modeled on Quake and Tomb Raider. Battle-strategy games behave like Warcraft. Flight simulators tend to resemble Microsoft's. To be sure, this year's new games are faster, smoother and compatible with accelerator cards that deliver superior 3-D effects. They also tend to require Olympian amounts of RAM. SimCity 3000, will need a minimum of 32 MB, though the payoff is splendidly rendered, 3-D, skyscraper-bejeweled...
KIRK KERKORIAN Billionaire raider sees his post-merger Chrysler stake treble to $5 billion. Gee, them that...
...power play converted 6 of 18 opportunities and the penalty killing successfully nullified two Red Raider five on three advantages. Sophomore goaltender J.R. Prestifilippo got progressively hotter as the weekend wore on. HARVARD 5 COLGATE 4 HARVARD 4 COLGATE...
...they can, that the company's corporate-governance system is totally compromised by the cross directorships with the foundations. "We as class-A [nonvoting] shareholders are impotent to effect any kind of change," complains Jonathan Lewis, an analyst at Franklin Mutual Advisors, which is headed by the feared raider Michael Price. The outfit, which has made runs at Dow Jones & Co., Chase Manhattan Corp. and Sunbeam Corp., wants Grune gone. Says Lewis: "Grune is an ineffective manager, and I think the board of directors should expeditiously seek to replace him and/or to pursue the sale of the company...
...Fisher found his touch inside for 10 points and junior forward Bill Ewing collected five of his seven rebounds, Schaeffer fell victim to Scott's pressure and watched the Raider offense collapse around...