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...frills pizza-delivery business, then nearly squandered it on his own ostentatious life-style. He struggled for years to rebuild his empire and finally succeeded. Then last month he walked away from it all for the second, and presumably final, time by selling his family's 90% stake in Domino's for an estimated $1 billion to a private investment firm called Bain Capital...
John B. Duff, president of Columbia College in Chicago, sat on a panel titled, "What's at Stake? The Current and Future Role of Tenure in the Academy...
...standard if, on the one hand, the Kosovo Albanians would be supported in seceding whereas, on the other hand, the same right is denied to the Serbs in Bosnia," Todorova said. "Promoting [an] independent Kosovo would effectively kill the Dayton agreement in which the United States has a great stake...
...hours in the talks, but both Israelis and Palestinians don't share his sense of the significance of the summit. "The talks aren't even the lead item on the TV news here," says Beyer. "This whole drawn-out high-level summit is inappropriate for the issues at stake here -- they're negotiating over the details of a single clause of the Oslo Agreement, but Washington is treating it with the same sense of drama as if it were a peace treaty between nations at war." But the glacial progress of even such limited negotiations suggests Bill Clinton will have...
...courtroom, such Clintonesque semantics--"It depends on what you mean by monopoly"--may be a tough act to swallow. David Boies, the Justice Department's chief counsel and a veteran of the old IBM antitrust suit, told TIME last week that he intends to ask everyone who testifies to stake his or her credibility on whether Windows constitutes a monopoly. "I doubt even [Microsoft's] witnesses will be able to keep a straight face," he says...