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...Clearly [the loss to Harvard] was a big game with a lot at stake, but we have a game next week, and Harvard still has a long way to go [for the League title]. Penn and Brown are good football teams," said Dartmouth Coach John Lyons...
Many people are interested in what Chinese President Jiang Zemin has to say on his visit to Harvard on Friday, but Chinese nationals in the community have more at stake than most...
Leaving aside the large sums of money at stake, he said that the real issue about tabloid journalism that has been raised in recent months is whether or not public officials and celebrities "ought to have some zone of privacy...
...Ebbers had derided as a vanquished foe three weeks ago. Lee has talked over the years with BT chairman Sir Iain Vallance and MCI's Roberts about a possible combination of the three telecom giants. Lee stressed last week that he would welcome BT, which has held a 20% stake in MCI since 1993, in a combined GTE and MCI. "We share the global vision of our industry that brought MCI and British Telecom together," Lee noted in a "Dear Bert" letter to Roberts...
Indeed, this battle could be influenced as much by the personal styles of the ceos as by the strength of their bids. Vallance, although he flat-out bungled his MCI bid, could use his 20% stake to provide the swing vote in a showdown. He seems more disposed to side with Lee than with Ebbers, who shattered BT's dream of acquiring all of MCI. Lee and Roberts, both engineers, have a common bond, while the defiantly nontechnical Ebbers is a wildcatter who built WorldCom into the fourth largest U.S. long-distance company through a relentless series of deals. "Bernie...