Word: reals
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Harvard Planning and Real Estate (HPRE), which owns Peabody Terrace, coordinated the University's response to the emergency...
...find out whether this is a real possibility or the final act in a nationally televised mid-life crisis, I joined Forbes as he crisscrossed Iowa by plane and bus. And I must say--for the sake of getting it out of the way--that yes, he looks as if he just accidentally walked into a brick wall and was knocked goofy. The glasses and smile are akimbo, and the eyes are not right. But he is so obviously pained by this, and stuck with it, that I found a sympathetic quality...
Were these polls right or wrong? That's largely irrelevant. The real point is, they don't matter. At this stage of a campaign, voters' minds are subject to change without notice. Even in Iowa and New Hampshire, where candidates take out residency papers, last-minute changes are commonplace. And national polls measure almost nothing worth thinking about. Most people haven't even begun to contemplate the campaign, and their choices are a thin gruel of name recognition and vague impression...
Levin reasoned that Time Warner without an Internet connection was still valuable, but its value to an Internet buyer was greater. So he arrived at 1.5 AOL shares to be exchanged for each TWX share. In real money, that was 70% more than Time Warner's $65 price the Friday before the deal was announced, but it would still give AOL shareholders 55% of the company. Conversely, Time Warner was providing 80% of the cash flow. Says Levin: "If some people think that AOL has been sold at too much of a discount or Time Warner has been sold...
...deal finally became real on the night of Jan. 6 at a dinner for Case, Levin, Novack and Bressler at Case's northern Virginia house. What began with a bottle of 1990 Chateau Leoville-Las Cases ("dazzling concentration, as well as fine acidity"--wine critic Robert Parker) in the living room and ended with chocolate mousse at the table became semiofficial when Case and Levin broadly agreed to a merger. They also agreed to sleep on it, and after midnight Bressler and Levin flew back to New York on a Time Warner jet. Novack and Bressler spoke...