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Jovanovich, the son of a poor immigrant coal miner, never owned more than 2% of HBJ's stock. This lack of control came to haunt him after he expanded the firm too rapidly in the 1980s. When the company's stock sank in early 1987, British publishing tycoon Robert Maxwell launched a hostile takeover bid. In a long and bitter fight, Jovanovich prevailed by recapitalizing HBJ with nearly $3 billion in debt, a large chunk of it in junk bonds. Maxwell, who called Jovanovich "a dumb Croat coal miner" who "killed" the company, has offered to buy some assets. "Maxwell...
...fame rocketed. She sank into his shadow, a housewife with two sons to raise, while he pursued general relativity -- the notion that gravity could be explained as "curved" space-time. They separated in 1914 and eventually divorced. As part of his alimony, he promised his future Nobel Prize money and delivered three years later. Einstein remarried and moved to America. Mileva and the kids were on their own. One son died in a mental institution, unvisited by his father; the other became an engineering professor. Mileva died in 1948, never having published a scientific paper under her own name...
Three tons of gold bars, nuggets, bullion and rare coins from the California goldfields were lost in 1857, when the steamship Central America sank in a hurricane off the Carolinas. Now this lost treasure, confirmed 18 months ago and worth up to $1 billion today, is in the eye of another hurricane, this time in a Norfolk, Va., courtroom...
...first game to beat a much-improved Brown team, 11-10. The B team beat MIT's B club team, 11-7, in its first game and then practically drowned the Engineers in its second game, 18-6. In between the two B team games, MIT easily sank Brown...
When the votes were tallied, Shamir sank his head into his hands, perhaps to blot out the triumphant smile on Peres' face. President Chaim Herzog is now expected to give Peres the first shot at forming a new coalition, a process that could take weeks -- and that typically brings out the worst in Israeli politics. Since Labor has only 39 seats in the Knesset, against Likud's 40, Peres must bargain for the support of the smaller parties, ranging from Arab communists to Orthodox rabbis. The balance of power is held by the fickle religious parties, which control 18 seats...